Anubis

[Bill Burns]

At 09:39 PM 3/3/97 -0500, Henry wrote:

>Does anybody know about the word "anubis?" Seems there is a large 
>bodied beetle "Megasoma anubis." I don't have a Pynchon fact sheet 
>handy.

You mean aside from the role of Anubis as the jackal-headed Egyptian god
who led the deceased to judgment? I only know what I've read in the
standard mythology texts--the inventor of embalming, sometimes identified
with Hermes.

So does this creature deliver large bodies? <g,d,r>


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