Today's snicker-doodle is brought to you by Osiris (mummified King of the Underworld), and his wife, Isis (she-who-wears-a-chair-on-her-head).
Fun fact: often, especially in the later years of Ancient Egypt, canopic jars weren't actually used for holding innards - they just kept them around as empty, ceremonial jars. Which leads to the question of how often people were tempted to covertly stash stuff inside them.
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