Apuat is the Parent manifesting as the dual female, mother principle out front revealed.
Apuat is the equal road and the guide and the opener of the way.
Throughout these different forms, the jackal is used as a symbol. As cycles change, also used as symbols have been the dog, wolf and fox. As the equal road of the equinox - Apuat is used by the Parent to find the child shut up in the ark in the west and found released in the east. The ark in the west is the womb tomb cocoon and in the east, birth and rebirth takes place. (NG2 350-1/358-9) As opener and guide through Amenta - Apuat is the seer, crier, announcer in the dark and leader of the pack of other elemental co-creators who perform functions in this transformation process in the cocoon. Amenta is the domain of the Parent awaiting resurrection. This wilderness was depicted as a cemetery, where the dead awaited the ever-coming one, and the first truth of the lunar light to wake them and help them come forth to day by night. (AE1 330/340); (AE2 644/108) As opener and guide in the combined form of Child and Parent - Anup-Ap-Uat is the guide as jackal or dog from the west to east through Amenta (AE2 658/122)
Apuat As Star Constellations
1. Canis Minor, the Little Dog2. Canis Major, the Big Dog
3. Cynosura (Ursa Minor) of the Age of the Jackal (AE2 613/77) As indicated above, Apuat is also the lunar star Moon that guides the Solar star Sun through the underworld each night so moonlight can be transformed and reborn as sunlight.