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Anubis, also called Anpu, is a jackal-headed ancient Egyptian deity. He is the god of the dead who supervised the embalming process and accompanied dead kings on their passage to the afterworld.

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ORIGINS OF ANUBIS

• There are two fundamentally different ursprung stories for Anubis in Egyptian mythology. The first and less well-known account of Anubis’ birth claims

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  This figure of a couchant jackal, the symbol of Anubis, is from Egypt from the XIth or XIIth dynasty. It was found in a tomb at Beni-Hasan during the excavations by Mr. John Garstang in 1902-04.
  
  The Egyptian god Anubis is the patron of mummification and the dead on their path through the underworld. He is represented as a jackal-headed god but unlike a real jackal, Anubis' head is black, representing his position as a god of the dead. He is rarely shown fully-human, but he is depicted so in the Temple of Abydos of Rameses II. There is a beautiful statue of him as a full jackal in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
  
  Anubis is an incredibly ancient god, and was the original god of the dead before Osiris "took over" the position. After that point, Anubis was changed to be one of the many sons of Osiris and the psychopomp (conductor of souls) of the underworld. His totem of the jackal is probably due to the fact that jackals would hunt at the edges of the desert, near the n

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