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Anubis (ən  `bĭs), Egyptian god of the dead. He presided over the embalming of the dead and is represented as a dog-headed or jackal-headed man.AnubisAncient Egyptian god of the dead, represented as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. In the Early Dynastic period and the Old Kingdom he was preeminent as lord of the dead, but he was later overshadowed by Osiris. Anubis was associated with the care of the dead and was credited with the invention of embalming, an art he first practiced on the corpse of Osiris. Later assigned the role of conducting souls into the underworld, he was sometimes identified in the Greco-Roman world with Hermes. Anubis god and guardian of the dead. [Ancient Egyptian Rel.: Parrinder, 10] See : Death Anubis jackal-headed god. [Egypt. Myth.: Jobes, 105] See : Monsters |
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thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; thou whom the pagans would have given as companion to the god Anubis, and Christians as friend to St. |
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