What is special about the Egyptian god Anubis?

Answer 1

He is the god of funerals, jackals, and death. In eygytian painyings, he shown with the head of a jackal. In eygyptian myths, he weights human hearts in the hall of judgment in the duat against the feather of truth to judge howpure the heart is.

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Anubis was the ancient Egyptian god of mummification, and the dead on their path through the underworld.

Answer 2

He guides the dead to the underworld where he can weigh the hearts. If the hearts are good the can go into the next life , if the hearts are bad the get eaten by a beast called Ammut. Anubis is the son of Osiris god of the underworld and his wife's twin sister Nephthys goddess of mouring. He is also cousin and half brother of Horus. Anubis is the god of embaling.

Answer 3

No; actually, Anubis (Anupu) was a funerary deity, the jackal-headed god of embalming and mummies.

Answer 4

Not exactly. Anubis is the god of mummification, essentially, and while he does have connections to the underworld, it is Osiris that is truly the god of the underworld.

Answer 5

In a way: Anubis is a ancient Egyptian god protector of the dead and embalming.