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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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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