Which has absolutely jack-all to do with anything furry.
Its the same thing with horror; people say, for instance, Beowulf is a horror story, because it has a scary monster named Grendel. It is not a horror story, however, because a lot of people back then believed there once was a scary monster named Grendel, as compared to say, Dracula or the Wolf-Man, which are also scary monsters, but where never meant to actually convince people of the existence of vampires or werewolves. Grendel was presented as something that actually once existed; Dracula and the Wolf-Man were presented as things that never existed, and never will.
Likewise, Anubis was a (to the Egyptians) very real entity; the cheetah skin wearing was for real power. No furry draws a anthropomorphic vixen and believes it is real, or dons a fursuit to gain wolf powers (barring those with mental disabilities, of course).
In a nutshell, horror and furry, like most modern "fantastic" genres, are self-conscious attempts, by both the producers and consumers, to gain real emotional experiences from the implicitly unreal (as "fiction") and the explicitly unreal (as "fantastic").
Furry, despite surface similiarities, is, in fact, the exact opposite of mythology.
Which has absolutely jack-all to do with anything furry.
Its the same thing with horror; people say, for instance, Beowulf is a horror story, because it has a scary monster named Grendel. It is not a horror story, however, because a lot of people back then believed there once was a scary monster named Grendel, as compared to say, Dracula or the Wolf-Man, which are also scary monsters, but where never meant to actually convince people of the existence of vampires or werewolves. Grendel was presented as something that actually once existed; Dracula and the Wolf-Man were presented as things that never existed, and never will.
Likewise, Anubis was a (to the Egyptians) very real entity; the cheetah skin wearing was for real power. No furry draws a anthropomorphic vixen and believes it is real, or dons a fursuit to gain wolf powers (barring those with mental disabilities, of course).
In a nutshell, horror and furry, like most modern "fantastic" genres, are self-conscious attempts, by both the producers and consumers, to gain real emotional experiences from the implicitly unreal (as "fiction") and the explicitly unreal (as "fantastic").
Furry, despite surface similiarities, is, in fact, the exact opposite of mythology.