Employing a range of poetic styles, spare but effective second-person lines pay tribute to the creaturely essences of the fennec fox, deathstalker scorpion, Anubis baboon, and many others.

Babi watched over his troupe of baboons, Ihy, would charm with his beautiful tunes, Thoth was the scribe god of reading and writing! Sekhmet the lioness, war god, she liked fighting! Anubis took ...