Anubis Arrives in St. Paul

Anubis arrived at the Landmark Plaza Park across from the St Paul Hotel last week as an advertisement for the upcoming King Tut attraction that will begin in February at the nearby Science Museum. The Pioneer Press said it was 26 feet high and when I first saw it in the evening light it seemed huge. I recognized the jackal headed god from a college course on ancient Egypt but didn't remember his history or purpose. It seems that he was the god of the underworld and embalming, a guide for the newly dead to the afterlife, the first mortician if you like. How does one decide to study mortuary science? Is the pay good? Are you always on call for nights and weekends? What would Anubis think about the green embalming movement? I heard that the state of Texas is allowing people to be buried naturally without the use of chemicals and concrete in state parks....dust to dust. In return Texas will use the money to add land to the state parks system. Do we have that here in Minnesota? I might like to end up in Banning State Park. I remember a walk down to the river there one summer was beautiful even though the mosquitoes were fierce. One of Anubis's main jobs was to preside over the weighing of the heart. If your heart was light as a feather you could have eternal life, if not then well I believe there was a crocodile god that got into the act and things went downhill from there.