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ANUBIS (in Egyptian Anap, written Inpw in hieroglyphs)

ANUBIS (in See also:
EGYPTIAN
Egyptian Anap, written Inpw in hieroglyphs) , the name of one of the most important of the Egyptian gods. There were two types of canine divinities in See also:

EGYPT

Egypt, their leading representatives being respectively Anubis and Ophois (Wp-w:-wt, " opener of the ways ") : the former type is symbolized by the recumbent See also:

animal , the other by a similar animal (in a stiff See also:

STANDING

standing attitude), carried as an See also:

EMBLEM (Gr. Eµ3Xysa, something put in or inserted, from EµfiiXAew, to throw in)

emblem on a See also:

standard in See also:

war or in religious processions. The former comprised two beneficent gods of the See also:

NECROPOLIS

necropolis; the latter also were beneficent, but warlike, divinities. They thus corresponded, at any See also:

RATE

rate in some measure, respectively to the fiercer and milder aspects of the See also:

dog-tribe. In See also:

LATE

late days the Greeks See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report that Kbves (See also:

DOGS, ISLE OF

dogs) were the sacred animals of Anubis while those of Ophois were XbKoL (wolves). The above figure is coloured See also:

black as befits a funerary and nocturnal animal: it is more attenuated than even a greyhound, but it has the bushy tail of the See also:

fox or the See also:

jackal. Probably these were the See also:

ORIGINAL

original genii of the necropolis, and in fact the same lean animal figured passant is s;b " jackal " or " fox." The domestic dog would be brought into the sacred circle through the increased veneration for animals, and the more pronounced view in later times of Anubis as servant, messenger and custodian of the gods. Anubis was the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

god in the capitals of the XVIIth and XVIIIth nomes of Upper Egypt, and secondary god in the XIIIth and probably in the XIIth See also:

NOME

nome; but his cult was universal. To begin with, he was the god of the dead, of the See also:

CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery, of all supplies for the dead, and therefore of See also:

EMBALMING (Gr. 06Xaaµov, balsam; Ger. Einbalsamiren; Fr. embaumement)

embalming when that became customary. In very See also:

early See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions the funerary prayers in the tombs are addressed to him almost exclusively, and he always took a leading See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in them. In the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the weighing of the soul before See also:

OSIRIS

Osiris, dating from the New-See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom onwards, Anubis attends to the See also:

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance while See also:

THOTH

Thoth registers the result. Anubis was believed to have been the embalmer of Osiris: the See also:

MUMMY (from the Persian mumiai, pitch or asphalt)

mummy of Osiris, or of the deceased, on a bier, tended by this god, is a very See also:

COMMON

common subject on funerary tablets of the late periods.

Anubis came to be considered especially the attendant of the gods and conductor of the dead, and hence was commonly identified with See also:

Hermes (cf. the name Hermanubis) ; but the role of Hermes as the god of eloquence, inventor of arts and See also:

recorder of the gods was taken by Thoth. In those days Anubis was considered to be son of Osiris by See also:

NEPHTHYS

Nephthys; earlier perhaps he was son of Re, the See also:

sun-god. In the 2nd See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A. D. his aid was " compelled " by the magicians and necromancers to fetch the gods and entertain them with See also:

food (especially in the ceremony of gazing into the bowl of oil), and he is invoked by them some-times as the " See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good Ox-See also:

HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd." The cult of Anubis must at all times have been very popular in Egypt, and, belonging to the See also:

ISIS (Egyptian Ese)

Isis and See also:

SERAPIS

Serapis See also:

cycle, was introduced into See also:

GREECE

Greece and See also:

Rome. See See also:

ERMAN, PAUL (1764-1851)

Erman, Egyptian See also:

Religion; Budge, Gods of the Egyptians; See also:

Meyer, in Zeits. f. Aeg. Spr. 41-97. (F. LL.

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