Anubis Anubis was the god of embalming of the dead. Since jackals were often seen in cemeteries, the ancient Egyptians believed that Anubis (a god in the form of a Jackal) watched over the dead. Anubis was the god who helped to embalm Osiris, after Osiris was killed by his brother, Seth. Thus, Anubis was the god who watched over the process of mummifying people when they died. Anubis is said to be the son …showed first 75 words of 279 total…

…showed last 75 words of 279 total…of the Dead. There, Anubis weighed your heart against the feather of Ma’at. First, he steadied the scales to make the weighing fair. If your heart was heavier than the feather then it was eaten by a demon. We still talk of “a heart as light as a feather” to mean car-free, and “heavy-hearted” to mean sad. In his role as psychopomp, he was referred to as the “Conductor of Souls” into the afterlife.