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Origin of the name ANUBIS.
Etymology of the
name ANUBIS.
Meaning of the baby name ANUBIS.
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| ANUBIS. Greek
form of Egyptian Anepou.
In Egyptian mythology, the chief of the gods of the dead. He was
called "The Son of the Cow" or of the goddess Nephthys, and he
was generally represented as a jackal-headed man, or as a jackal resting
upon the top of an open tomb, having a collar or ribbon round his neck,
with a sceptre between his paws, and with the flabellum of the god Khem
behind him. In this latter form he most frequently occurs on the
funereal pectorals of the XIXth dynasty. He was, as the peculiar
deity of the dead, the guardian of the mummied body, and the president of
the embalmers; and as his office, like that of Horus, led him to drive
away evil spirits from the deceased, he was also called like him,
"The Conqueror of the Enemies of his Father Osiris."
Anubis was also in some degree analogous to the Hermes Psychopompos of the
Greek, inasmuch as he was the guardian of the way of life, and, together
with Horus, escorted the souls to Hades. In the earlier papyri, and
in the Ritual of the Dead, Anubis assumed several important characters;
but his cultus gradually declined before the increase of that of Horus and
Amen Ra, till after the XXVIth dynasty, when he appears to have been again
regarded as a form of Horus, both as the avenger of Osiris and the
justifier or redeemer of the dead. His name is more properly written
according to the hieroglyphic system, Anpu
or Anepou. The jackal
was his sacred animal. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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