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Anubis, God of the Dead,
represented with a head of a jackal or simply as a jackal opened the road to the
other world and presided over embalmings.
After a funeral, Anubis would
take the deceased by the hand and introduce him into the presence of the
sovereign judges where the soul of the deceased would be weighed.
Anubis was the Guardian of
Offerings brought to the ceremony by heirs of the deceased and he also guarded
the mummy from evil forces in the night. When the body was embalmed, a priest
wearing a jackal mask acted as Anubis's representative. Anubis also guarded the
Sacred Esoteric Mysteries.
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