Anubis god of death biography templates

Overview

One of the most famous figures of the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, Anubis was a powerful deity whose role shifted over time. Before Osiris and Isis rose to prominence, Anubis was worshipped as the god of the dead.

When Osiris took on this role, however, Anubis became the god of mummification (as well as Osiris’s bastard son).

Despite his significance and multi-millennia long worship, Anubis was seldom a main character in the Egyptian mythos.

He was an integral part of the story of Osiris’s murder, in which he embalmed the deceased god.

Egyptian gods

Thereafter, he was known as the Lord of the Mummy Wrapping.

Etymology

Like much of the Egyptian pantheon, Anubis’s name came to us as a Greek translation of his Egyptian name. This was partly because the Greeks continued to worship or at least admire the Egyptian gods, but also due to the ambiguity of the vowelless writing system employed in Ancient Egyptians.

An accurate, albeit unhelpful, rendering of his name in Ancient Egyptian is jn