Description

Anubis was known to the Egyptians ass An-pu. There is a little confusion about his parentage though. Some believe he was the sun of Set and Nephthys. and others believe that he is the sun of Osiris and Nephthys. Either way he is shown as having the head of a jackal and body of a man.

He was the guide of the dead on their way through the underworld to where Osiris lived. When the dead person came to have their heart weight against the feather to see if they were worthy of entering the place of Osiris, he makes sure that the beam if the scales is in the right place and that the person is being treated fairly.