Anubis

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Anubis, everyone's favorite doggo-headed god, is the

Egyptian and some times Greek and Roman god of death, Anubis
mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries,
tombs, and the Underworld. Depicted as a protector of
graves, Anubis was also an embalmer. Later he was
replaced by Osiris in his role as lord of the underworld.
One of his prominent roles was as a god who ushered souls
into the afterlife. He attended the weighing scale during the
weighing, in which it was determined whether a soul would
be allowed to enter the realm of the dead.

Depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head. The head

was believed to be the African Golden Jackal, but some
nerds did some DNA analysis and found the Jackal species
is a wolf, so wolf would be more appropriate. Black jackal
Aliases Judge of the Dead, Hound
Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumed
of the Dead
different roles in various contexts and also mixed in with
nearby religions. Alignment 2E: Lawful Good
3E/5E: Lawful Neutral
Anubis was depicted in black, a color that symbolized Divine Rank Unknown
regeneration, life, the soil of the Nile River, and the Pantheon Egyptian
discoloration of the corpse after embalming. Anubis is Portfolio Guardian of the dead
associated with his brother Wepwawet, another Egyptian gods, judgement, death,
god portrayed with a dog's head or in canine form, but with Furries
grey or white fur. Nerds assume that the two figures were
Domains 3E: Law, Magic, Repose
eventually combined.
5E: Death, Grave, Order
Anubis is one of the most well-known of the Egyptian Home Plane Astral Plane
gods, and is extremely popular with the Furry fandom. He Worshippers Embalmer, guardians,
is so well known that many people, when they hear the monks, necromancers
word "jackal" think of Anubis instead of any of the real Favoured Weapon mace
animals called jackals, which the popular depiction of
Anubis does not look like. This popular depiction has him look like a humanoid canine with short black fur and
long thin pointy ears and often with gold markings on his body or lots of gold jewelry because black and gold
go very well together. The real animal species called jackals are not black and look pretty similar to wolves and
coyotes. If you search for art of jackals on a furry website, nearly all of the results will look like Anubis rather
than actual jackals. This same effect is also seen in media, as you will rarely see a jackal based creature that
actually looks like a jackal, for example the Khenra race. Though this is also partly because of people just not
being familiar with jackals and too lazy to look them up, as you will see in the artwork of the Jackalwere, which
don't look like jackals or Anubis.
 Contents
▪ 1 Family Relations
▪ 2 Historical Rites and Rituals
▪ 2.1 Embalmer and Psychopomp
▪ 3 Historical Mythology
▪ 4 Historical Fantasy
▪ 5 Ravenloft Anubis
▪ 6 Pathfinder

Family Relations

Anubis' female counterpart is Anput. His daughter is the serpent goddess Kebechet.

Historical Rites and Rituals

In contrast to real wolves which are opportunistic scavengers, Anubis was a protector of graves and cemeteries.
Most ancient tombs had prayers to Anubis carved on them. There was also the name of a different canine
funerary god, alluded to his protecting function because the dead were usually buried on the west bank of the
Nile. Anubis took other names in connection with his funerary role, such as tpy-ḏw.f "He who is upon his
mountain"; keeping guard over tombs from above, and nb-t3-ḏsr "Lord of the sacred land", which designates
him as a god of the desert necropolis.

Embalmer and Psychopomp

As jmy-wt "He who is in the place of embalming", Anubis was associated with mummification. He was also
called ḫnty zḥ-nṯr "He who presides over the god's booth", in which "booth" could refer either to the place
where embalming was carried out or the pharaoh's burial chamber.

The Opening of the Mouth ceremony involved a symbolic animation of a statue or mummy by magically
opening its mouth so that it could breathe and speak. This ritual was performed by a priest wearing a wooden
Anubis mask. There is evidence of this ritual from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. Special tools were
used to perform the ceremony, such as a ritual adze, an arm shaped ritual censer, a spooned blade known as a
peseshkaf, a serpent-head blade, and a variety of other amulets. A calf's leg was also held up to the lips painted
on the coffin.

The ancient Egyptians believed that in order for a person's soul to survive in the afterlife it would need to have
food and water. The opening of the mouth ritual was thus performed so that the person who died could eat and
drink again in the afterlife.

The ceremony involved up to 75 "episodes" and, in its most complete version, and you can google these.

Historical Mythology

In one of the many Osiris myths (Jumilhac papyrus) where Anubis protected the body of Osiris from Set. Set
attempted to attack the body of Osiris by transforming himself into a leopard. Anubis stopped and subdued Set,
however, and he branded Set's skin with a hot iron rod. Anubis then flayed Set and wore his skin as a warning
against evil-doers who would desecrate the tombs of the dead. Priests who attended to the dead wore leopard
skin in order to commemorate Anubis' victory over Set. The legend of Anubis branding the hide of Set in
leopard form was used to explain how the leopard got its spots.

In the Osiris myth, Anubis helped Isis to embalm Osiris. It was said that after Osiris had been killed by Set,
Osiris's organs were given to Anubis as a gift. With this connection, Anubis became the patron god of
embalmers; during the rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a wolf-mask-
wearing priest supporting the upright mummy.

Later Anubis was often depicted as guiding individuals across the threshold from the world of the living to the
afterlife. Hathor was also found in this role, Anubis was more commonly depicted. Greek writers from the
Roman period of Egyptian history designated that role as that of "psychopomp", originally a Greek term
meaning "guide of souls" that they used to refer to their own god Hermes, who also played that role in Greek
religion. Funerary art from that period represents Anubis guiding either men or women dressed in Greek clothes
into the presence of Osiris, who by then had long replaced Anubis as ruler of the underworld.

Weighing of the heart The "weighing of the heart," from the book of the dead. Anubis is portrayed as both
guiding the deceased forward and manipulating the scales, under the scrutiny of the ibis-headed Thoth with
Ammit and Ma'at present.

One of the roles of Anubis was as the "Guardian of the Scales." The critical scene depicting the weighing of the
heart, in the Book of the Dead, shows Anubis performing a measurement that determined whether the person
was worthy of entering the realm of the dead (the underworld, known as Duat). By weighing the heart of a
deceased person against Ma'at), who was often represented as an ostrich feather, Anubis dictated the fate of
souls. Souls heavier than a feather would be nomed by Ammit, and souls lighter than a feather would ascend to
the afterlife of Osiris.

Historical Fantasy

In Planescape, Anubis is no longer a god, but something else. As his portfolio was being taken by Osiris, he
went ponder his fate in the Astral Plane, and either at the behest of other gods or of his own volition, became the
guardian of the dead gods bodies. He roams the Astral Plane and has book where he writes the current condition
of the corpses. Despite this, his remaining worshippers still gain their powers from somewhere, as Anubis
doesn't grant them spells anymore.

The Historical Deities of Dungeons and Dragons[Expand]

Ravenloft Anubis
In Ravenloft, Anubis is known as the god of
mummification, worshipped by the people of Har'Akir and Anubis
werejackals. Clerics of Anubis who have proven Alignment Lawful Evil
themselves are granted the gift of lycanthrophy, and can Divine Rank Unknown
dominate other werejackals. Pantheon Ravenloft
Basically, he's largely like all the other Historical Fantasy Portfolio Mummification
deities in Ravenloft and largely shoved in there because Domains Death, Evil, Repose
Har'Akir is part of the Fantasy Egypt cluster of the Home Plane Unknown
Demiplane of Dread. He is different to his Planescape Worshippers Akiri, werejackals
counterpart in that he a) is closer to his mythological self
instead of pulling duty as the gravekeeper of deities on the Astral Plane, and b) he's outright evil, because of
course any Death-related god in Ravenloft is going to be evil.

As a Historical Fantasy deity, Anubis survived the transition from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to Dungeons
& Dragons 3rd Edition intact, unlike the various Ravenloft deities who were lifted from settings like the
Forgotten Realms, who had to be replaced with new, license-free equivalents.

The Deities & Religions of Ravenloft

Lawful Neutral Chaotic
Daghda
Brigantia - Ezra (Pure Hearts) Andral - Belenus
Good The Morninglord
The Overseer - Ra Diancecht - Osiris
Tvashtri
Divinity of Mankind
Ancestral Fey
Neutral Manannan mac Lir
Ezra (Erudites) - Hala Lugh - Mytteri
Ezra (Home Faith) - Yutow
The Ancestral Choir
Cat Lord - Erlin
Anubis - Ezra (Zealots)
Arawn Kali - Morrigan
Evil Math Mathonwy - The Lawgiver
The Eternal Order The Spider Queen
Set - Zhakata
The Wolf God
Unknown Dark Powers

Pathfinder

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