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Anubis and other Gods

Anubis and other Gods. By: Clayton Wheatland. Who is Anubis?. Anubis is the god of embalming. Anubis is also known as Inpu and in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, he is associated with the burial of the king, that is the oldest known mention of Anubis.

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Anubis and other Gods

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  1. Anubis and other Gods By: Clayton Wheatland

  2. Who is Anubis? Anubis is the god of embalming. Anubis is also known as Inpu and in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, he is associated with the burial of the king, that is the oldest known mention of Anubis. Anubis is usually in the form as a jackal-headed man, or in fully canine form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in its arm. Anubis is in his human form very rarely. Anubis performs a measurement that determines the worthiness of the dead to enter the realm of the Underworld by weight their heart on a scale with a feather.

  3. Anubis’ Father He was said to have a wife whose name is Anput (additional suffix: the t). Anubis’ father was originally Ra in many records which were found in pyramids. He was the fourth son of Ra but in after ages, his father was said to be Osiris. Osiris was the god of the dead, and Anubis‘s mother was said to be Nephthys. Ra Osiris

  4. Who is Ra? Ra is the god of the sun and is one of the main gods in Egypt. Ra is mostly pronounced 'rah‘. more likely it should be pronounced as 'ray‘. Ra’s name should be spelled “Re”. The Egyptians thought that humans were created from Ra's tears or sweat. They also call themselves the "Cattle of Ra". Ra uses his boat to take the sun up in the sky in the day and in the underworld at night

  5. The first God In ancient Egypt the people believed that Atum was the first god to exist on the earth. Atum is a creator god and was to have come out of Nun. Nun was dark water of chaos. Atum then spat out Shu, the god of the air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture.

  6. The first God con…. Shu and Tefnut had two kids. First, there was Geb the god of the earth. Then there was Nut the goddess of the sky. Shu lifted Nut up so that she was high above Geb. The four kids that Nut and Geb had were Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. Osiris then became the first pharaoh and Isis was the first queen. Geb Nut

  7. Osiris Osiris is one of the oldest gods because records have been found and first appears in the Pyramid Texts around 2400 BC. Osiris had a brother named Seth and Seth killed Osiris because he wanted to be king. Osiris’s wife Isis brought him back with the help of Anubis. Osiris is the god of the Underworld. Seth and Horus (Osiris’ son) fought then Horus won and was the new pharaoh of Egypt. Horus

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