User blog comment:ShodaiGoro/Battle of The Soul Takers: Death VS. Anubis/@comment-2213439-20120301201645/@comment-4328703-20120303043326

well actually, the Egyptians represented them as half animal half human because when he came to earth he could come in either the form of a human or a jackal, never that weird hybrid you see, but he can change physical forms from human to jackal, but never the combonation