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Anubis — The god of the afterlife; Atum — The god of the sun; Bast — The god of pleasure, poetry and dance; Bes — The god of luck and probability; Geb — The god of the Earth; Horus — The god of the Sun; Isis — The goddess of fertility; Khonshu — The god of the Moon; Neith — The goddess of the Earth; Nun — The god of the ...
Anubis as a jackal perched atop a tomb, symbolizing his protection of the necropolis "Anubis" is a Greek rendering of this god's Egyptian name. [7] [8] Before the Greeks arrived in Egypt, around the 7th century BC, the god was known as Anpu or Inpu. The root of the name in ancient Egyptian language means "a royal child."
Classical examples of a psychopomp are the ancient Egyptian god Anubis, [3] the deity Pushan in Hinduism, the Greek ferryman Charon, [1] the goddess Hecate, and god Hermes, the Roman god Mercury, the Norse Valkyries, the Aztec Xolotl, the Slavic goddess Morana and the Etruscan Vanth.
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In this way, the deceased could avoid meeting a similar fate, and be victorious over the forces of chaos like Ra. [36] Am-heh, whose name means "devourer of millions" or "eater of eternity", [37] is a hunting dog headed god from the underworld who lived in a lake of fire.
The jackal hieroglyph that appears in Khenti-Amentiu's name in the Early Dynastic Period is traditionally seen as a determinative to indicate the god's form, but Terence DuQuesne argued that the jackal glyph represents the name of Anubis and that Khenti-Amentiu was originally an epithet or manifestation of Anubis. If this is the case, Khenti ...
Nehebkau, the primordial snake and funerary god associated with the afterlife, and one of the forty-two assessors of Maat; Osiris, lord of the Underworld [2] Qebehsenuef, one of the four sons of Horus; Seker, a falcon god of the Memphite necropolis who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the dead. He is known to be closely ...
Her name is written in hieroglyphs as jnpwt (reconstructed in Middle Egyptian as /ʔan.ˈpa.wat/ or /jan.ˈpa.wat/). [1] In English, her name also is rendered as Anupet, Input, Inpewt, and Yineput. [1] As the female counterpart of her husband, Anubis, who was known as jnpw to the Egyptians, Anput's name ends in a feminine "t" suffix when seen ...