Feel free to search on Google or Wikipedia for information on this god. I certainly can’t put it all here.
Anubis, first and foremost, judged the Dead. He was what they faced as they dealt with the challenge of entering Heaven. Some people call him God of the Dead for his role in embalming but Osiris is more correctly the God of the Dead and in some stories Thoth was the one to teach Isis how to embalm her dead husband. But no other God challenged the Dead with their acts during life.
It was a hard thing to deal with for anyone. You failed if your heart was either heavier or lighter than the Feather of Ma’at but in some funeral paintings, Anubis is seen holding the chain of the scales. This infers he could influence the outcome. There is no text saying he could do this, however, so to what end he might do it is left as a lesson to us.
Anubis, first and foremost, judged the Dead. He was what they faced as they dealt with the challenge of entering Heaven. Some people call him God of the Dead for his role in embalming but Osiris is more correctly the God of the Dead and in some stories Thoth was the one to teach Isis how to embalm her dead husband. But no other God challenged the Dead with their acts during life.
It was a hard thing to deal with for anyone. You failed if your heart was either heavier or lighter than the Feather of Ma’at but in some funeral paintings, Anubis is seen holding the chain of the scales. This infers he could influence the outcome. There is no text saying he could do this, however, so to what end he might do it is left as a lesson to us.
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