Anubis | Lord of the Necropolis Egyptian God of Death (Egyptian Mythology)

 One of the oldest and most easily recognized gods of Egypt's soft  Pantheon is   Anubis. Lord of the necropolis at first of the Westerners. He's described as a jackal, with fur as Black is decaying flesh depicted in art, in hieroglyphs, as a human man with a jackals head and associated with the dead, and the afterlife.   Anubis has a heavy reputation of being a grim and foreboding figure. But despite common misconceptions.   Anubis is not the God of the dead. Rather, he's the God of embalming and of cemeteries, a guardian of graves both noble and common, and a patron of Lost Souls, orphans, and the helpless.

Like many aspects relating to Egyptian mythology.   Anubis is origins are shrouded in mystery. Some stories, give him Ra and Nephthys as his parents, or R
on Bastet. Others say he's descended from  Hissad and Bastet even more stories claim him to be the son of Nephthys and Seth or even an illegitimate son of Osiris and Nephthys. In the latter tale. If this trick Osiris into fathering  Anubis by taking the form of Osiris wife, Isis. Nephthys told her husband and brother Seth that the child was his with the rules and fail and Seth a plan to murder the child when he was born.  Nephthys abandoned the child at birth, hiding him in the marshes of the Nile. The child was then taken care of by  Jackals, and eventually adopted by Isis would raise  Anubis as her own. Whatever his origins may be  Anubis rarely ever makes an appearance in the stories of Egyptian mythology is most prominent role comes when  Osiris was murdered by Seth in a bit of jealousy, hacking his body into pieces, scattering them throughout the land of Egypt,  Anubis aided in the search for Osiris as body parts, and went on to a  mummify  Osiris's body, becoming the first mummy. At this point, Anubis relinquished his title as ruler of the dead for Osiris, and he subsequently became the God of embalming as the god of embalming Anubis oversaw the mummification process. These priests would wear jackal masks during the ritual practices. In order to honor and invoke God's power and blessing knew this would then guide the soul of the deceased to Duat.Egyptian underworld, like the concept of the Grim Reaper in European folklore. When they would arrive. Anubis would bring the shade to the Hall of truth, where they would have to pass a simple test  . Anubis would remove the person's heart and place it on one side of a large scale. Opposite the feather of matt., which represents the truth and order on one side of the scale was the crane, God. So, we would record the verdict. And on the other end, was a demon named Ahmet part crocodile half hippo half lion, and entirely frightening. If the heart was equal in weight, or lighter than the feather. a person would be deemed pure and granted access into the afterlife.  But if the weight was even slightly more than the enchanted feather then it would signify a life full of sin and deceit, the corrupted soul and the heart would then be fed to the hungry Ameth doomed to die a second time and suffer eternally. This legend was the reason that the heart was often left intact during the mummification process, whereas the brain would be discarded. And the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines, would be transferred to canopic jars. Though Anubis's role in Egyptian mythology wasn't limited his role in the journey of the soul was beyond. The gods of any Pantheon may act aloof towards mortals. But  Anubis was the one God, that ancient Egyptians knew at some point, they would meet face to face. He was the final judge of character. The sole remaining gateway to everlasting life. In modern times, long since the hero of the pharaohs. Anubis has garnered a written popularity. One that perhaps outshines any other Egyptian god or goddess.

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