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noun - Egyptian god of tombs and ruler of the underworld
A jackal-headed Egyptian god and the son of Osiris.
ANUBIS - Anubis (; Ancient Greek: , Egyptian: jnpw, Coptic: Anoup) is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyp...
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This Egyptian god of the dead is often depicted with the head of a jackal |
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Priests overseeing the mummification ritual process often wore masks depicting this Egyptian god of embalming |
A holiday for this Egyptian god might be the day of the jackal, since he had a jackal head |
He's the jackal-headed god of the dead seen here on an ancient Egyptian fresco |
Appropriately, the center of cult worship for this ancient Egyptian god was in Cynopolis, "City of the Dog" |
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jackal-headed Egyptian god of tombs conducted dead to judgment |
The god of mummification, protector of tombs, typically represented as having a dog's head. |
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Anubis (; Ancient Greek: , Egyptian: jnpw, Coptic: Anoup) is the Greek name of a god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. Archeologists have identified Anubis's sacred animal as an Egyptian canid, the African golden wolf.Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumed different roles in various contexts. Depicted as a protector of graves as early as the First Dynasty (c. 3100 c. 2890 BC), Anubis was also an embalmer. By the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055 1650 BC) he was replaced by Osiris in his role as lord of the underworld. One of his prominent roles was as a god who ushered souls into the afterlife. He attended the weighing scale during the "Weighing of the Heart," in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead. Despite being one of the most ancient and "one of the most frequently depicted and mentioned gods" in the Egyptian pantheon, Anubis p |