Baboon

A baboon is a character in Soul of the Mummy.
It is believed by S’ankhibthot, one of the main characters in the storym that the baboon was the god Thoth incarnate. Thoth, one of the deities of the Egyptian pantheon, was often depicted in art as a man with the head of an ibis, or a baboon.
Thoth had many roles in Egyptian mythology. He served as a mediating power, especially between good and evil as well as serving as the scribe of the gods, and he invented writing and the hieroglyphs. In the underworld, he records the judging of the dead.
There are stories that in ancient times, he was favored by homosexual Egyptians, who were favored by him in turn.
Considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians, the hamadryas baboon is distinguished from other baboons by the male’s long, silver-grey shoulder cape, and the pink or red, rather than black face.
==Soul of the Mummy==
The baboon is encountered by Tucker at the middle of the story and he believes it to be dangerous. However, S’ankhibthot (in the body of André) is convinced that it is there to protect the two of them, as priests in ancient Egypt had used baboons to guard the temple.
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Later in the story when the warlock Ma’akheruenhut returns to modern times in the form of a mummy, he attacks both Tucker and S’ankhibthot. The baboon then attacks and eventually destroys Ma’akheruenhut and disappears.
S’ankhibthot knows that the baboon is the spirit of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god associated with judgment of the dead.
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