# Anubis · the jackal · embalmer & guide of the dead

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Anubis:NTR:35e9ea⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Hermes (as Hermanubis)* · Roman: *Mercury* — the psychopomp who leads souls — fused in the Greco-Roman age into ‘Hermanubis’

**who —** Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming and the dead — guardian of the necropolis and guide of souls into the afterlife.
**what —** Mummification, the protection of graves, and the leading of the dead; he invented embalming on Osiris's own body and oversees the weighing of the heart.
**where —** The necropolis, the embalming tent, the threshold of the Duat.
**why —** Because someone must prepare the body and walk the soul into the dark — Anubis is the patient guide at the door of death.
**how —** By embalming the dead (the priests wore his mask), guarding the tomb, and conducting souls to the scales.

**the seal —** I made the first mummy from my murdered lord, and I lead each soul by the hand into the dark — death has a guide, and it is me.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0