deity
Anubis
An Egyptian god of embalming and the care of the dead, often jackal-headed. He belongs to the technology of the tomb, not a generic psychopomp.
Also known as Inpu
Egyptian religion
Anubis belongs to Egyptian religion.
Anubis belongs to the craft of the Egyptian dead as the spells and tomb-images remember him.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Anubis is associated with Death.
Anubis is a god of the body’s care after death. The job is embalming and guiding in an Egyptian tomb, not a generic reaper.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Anubis is associated with Duat.
Funerary texts place Anubis in the business of the below. The Duat is his working geography.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Anubis appears in Egyptian religion.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris names Anubis among the Egyptian figures who aid Isis’s search and guard the dead in the Osiris cycle as that treatise retells it. A named Anubis presence in egyptian-religion under this source, not a jackal identity dump alone.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Soul is associated with Anubis.
Anubis’s care is of a body that must remain a person. English soul is blunt for that Egyptian equipment.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Dog is sacred to Anubis.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the dog with Anubis in Egyptian search-and-guard speech — canine Anubis as Greek readers hear that cult. A named dog–Anubis cult link under this source, not a jackal taxonomy fight and not a generic cemetery-dog dump.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Jackal is sacred to Anubis.
The Book of the Dead’s Anubis is jackal-headed guardian of embalming and the weighing — the jackal as sacred animal of Anubis, not a dog–Anubis Plutarch restatement and not jackal appears_in egyptian alone.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Jackal of Anubis mark is sacred to Anubis.
The Book of the Dead’s embalming and weighing guardian keeps the jackal-Anubis mark as Anubis’s animal form — a named mark sacred to Anubis, not jackal→anubis animal dedication alone and not a dog merge.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).