Anubis: This jackal-headed god looked after dead, and was in charge of important task of mummification. Anubis can appear as either a black canine with long sharp ears, or as a man with a canine head. The black colour of Anubis is not natural to jackals or to wild dogs of Egypt; it may refer to discoloration of a body after death and during mummification. The black colour also refers to rich dark soil of Egypt, from which new growth came every year; in similar manner, dead would come to new life after burial. Dogs, as animal companions, were present in Egypt from very beginning. Sometimes dogs were buried with their masters. It may have given Egyptians comfort to think of such an animal as guarding cemeteries, protecting dead. There are other minor animals that were held sacred by Egyptians so because they were beneficial others because they were considered evil. Examples of these animals are:- The mongoose was respected because of its skill and power of robbing nests and eating snakes. The snakes were thought to be evil. Because snake's poisonous bite, it killed many people. The crocodile was known for its silent attacks on people near Nile water. The hippopotamus was considered evil and very dangerous. They were killed to protect people. At night hippopotamus would trample fields. The locusts were considered evil because they would destroy and damage crops. Frogs and toads were sign of fertility. The number one hundred thousandths is a sign of a tadpole. Heket: Frog-headed goddess of childbirth. Frogs, who produce vast numbers of tadpoles, were popular as amulets to ensure fertility. Babi is a deity shown in Baboon form, and it's from his name that we get our word for these animals. Babi is ferocious, even blood-thirsty, unlike usually calm and reasonable Thoth who also appears as a baboon. Other animals represented by a god/goddess or sacred were ibises, dogs, rams, baboons, shrews, fishes, gazelles, and lions. Farm Animals Animals were one of most important things about farming. Animals helped ancient Egyptians with jobs like trampling in seeds, pulling plow, eating unwanted grain or wheat and providing them with food and drink. But having these animals may have caused misfortune like if a donkey nibbled on someone else's crops farmer could threaten to take its owner to court. Also if animals were sick Egyptians had to do all work that they did. If animals were not marked they may have been stolen. Some of farm animals were goats, pigs, ducks, cows, and geese.

Temple of Amon Ra In Luxor, all that remains of its glorious past is temple that ancient Egyptians built to glory of Amon ra king of gods, and which they called "Southern harem of Amon". Brought back to light in 1883 by Gaston Maspéro, temple is 260 metres long and its construction was basically commissioned by two Pharaohs, Amon-Ofis III who started it in XIV century B.C. and Ramses II who completed it adding porticoed courtyard with its axis moved eastwards, and no longer north-south as in case of rest of temples. The architect was probably amenophis, son of Hotep. The temple of Luxor was joined to that of karnak by a long stone-paved dromos, a drome and a processional avenue, flanked by sphinxes with rams heads that XXX Dynasty replaced with sphynexes with human heads. The avenue ended at entrance to temple of Luxor, marked by large pylon erected by Ramses II, which features a 65-metre front decorated with bas-reliefs illustrating scenes of military campaigns of Pharaoh against Hittites. In ancient time, pylon was preceded by two obelisks, two seated colossi and two standing colossi. Today, only left 25-metre high obelisk is still standing: other was taken to Paris in 1833 and placed by engineer Lebas in Place de la Concorde on 25th October 1836. The two colossi in granite represent Pharaoh seated on his throne, fifteen and a half metres in height on a base of about one metre. Of other four statues in pink granite leaning against pylon, one was to represent Queen Nefertari and another decrepit one to right, his daughter Merit-Amon. Having passed through triumphal entrance, one enters court of Ramses II, with its double row of columns with closed papyrus capital and statues of Osiris in inter columns. To north-west of courtyard one can admire temple-deposit of sacred boats built by Thot-Mosis III and dedicated to triad Amon, Mut and Khonsu. Then follows a colonnade of two rows of bell-shaped columns 52 meters long that take us to second sourtyard, or courtyard of Amon-Ofis II, surrounded on three sides by two rows of columns with closed papyruses, a real, highly evocative forest. From here, across a transversal hypostyle hall, one enters last sanctuary, most intimate and sacred part, which gave temple its name of "Adytum of south" theatre.