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ANUBIS

        Anubis is the god of the dead.  He was usually represented as a man with the head of a jackal, but also as a crouching jackal, and was therefore referred to as the 'jackal god'. He is regarded as the son of Osiris and Nephthys.  Anubis was worshipped in the entire realm, but the center of his cult was in Cynopolis (Upper Egypt).  In his role of psychopomp ("conductor of souls") he leads the dead souls  to the House of Osiris. As the Judge of the Dead, Anubis would take each person's heart and weigh it against the Feather of Truth.

         He was also known as Anpu and Sekhem em Pet. He was the messenger from the gods to humankind.  He was usually pictured with the head of a jackal.  Anubis invented embalming and funeral rites. He was the protector of the dead and the judge of the dead or the god of the Underworld.  He and Maat weighed human souls for worth.  Anubis is also the God of wisdom, intelligence, death, endings, truth, justice, surgery, hospital stays, finding lost things, anesthetics, medicine, journeys, protection, and astral travel.