God Anubis |
Anubis was commonly depicted as a black Jackal with a branched tail or as a man with the head of a jackal or a dog. In the pyramid texts Anubis was represented as the son of Ra and given a daughter, a goddess of freshness. In time he lost both of those ascribes and became break of the Osirian cultic tradition, the son of Nepthys, abandoned by his mother, who had borne him to Osiris. Isis raised him and when he was grown he gone with Osiris. He aided Isis when Set pile Osiris and taken apart his corpse. Anubis invented the mortuary rites at this time, leading on the title of "Lord of the Mummy Wraps". He was also visited Khenty-seh-netjer, the Foremost of the Sacred Place (the burial chamber). He was addressed as well Neb-ta-djeser, the Lord of the Sacred Land, the necropolis.
Anubis henceforward ushered in the went to the Judgment halls of Osiris. The deity staid on popular in full periods of Egyptian history and close in the time of foreign domination. Anubis took over the craze of Khenti-Amenttiu, an early eye tooth god in Abydos. There he was addressed as Tepiy-dju-ef, he who is on His Mountain. Anubis guarded the scales upon which the souls of the dead were counted at opinion. He was a extremity of the Ennead of Heliopolis, in that city.