The king is also able to nurture the inhabitants of the netherworld by shifting gender: celestial beings ‘recognize you in this your name Anubis. The gods will not descend against you in this your name of Milk-goddess’ (text 82). Hesat is later regarded as the daughter of Anubis, and in the Pyramid Texts the imywt-emblem, always closely associated with the jackal deity, is born from Hesat (text 116).

The Jackal Divinities of Egypt I, From the Archaic Period to Dynasty X, by Terence DuQuesne (page 352)