Anubis
MythologyEgyptian
RoleGod of death and mummification
About Anubis
Recognizable by his jackal head. Supervised the weighing of the heart ceremony in the afterlife. The heart was weighed against the feather of Maat. If heavier, it was fed to Ammit, a crocodile-lion-hippo beast. Originally the ruler of the underworld before Osiris.
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