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EGYPTIAN HISTORY WE ARE owners of an extremely rare Egyptian antiques and our job is to offer clients excellent items witch they deserve. The items that we choose and selected with care from many places and original sources. We like to present you a best listing and we also guarantee unique purchases and best buys w we start our clients satisfaction. In addition we promise fast and reliable shipments that delivers you purchases safely in the expected condition .We are dedicated to serve our customers with honesty and integrity in order to grant customers a successful and unforgettable deal because we aim on maintaining long term relation ships with our clients. . HISTORY Anubis was the guardian of the dead, who greeted the souls in the Underworld and protected them on their journey. It was he who deemed the deceased worthy of becoming a star. Ancient Egyptian texts say that Anubis silently walked through the shadows of life and death and lurked in dark places. He was watchful by day as well as by night. He also weighed the heart of the dead against the feather symbol of Ma'at , the goddess of truth. One of the reasons that the ancient Egyptians took such care to preserve their dead with sweet-smelling herbs was that it was believed Anubis would check each person with his keen canine nose. Only if they smelled pure would he allow them to enter the Kingdom of the Dead. Anubis was portrayed as a jackal-headed man/god, or as a jackal wearing ribbons and holding a flagellum, a symbol of protection, in the crook of its arm. Some think that he was not pictured as a jackal but as a dog, fox, wolf, or hybrid instead. Very rarely is he ever shown fully human. Anubis was always shown as a black jackal or dog, even though real jackals are typically tan or a light brown. To the Egyptians black was the colour of regeneration, death, and the night. It was also the colour that the body turned during mummification. The reason for Anubis' animal being canine is based on what the ancient Egyptians themselves observed of the creature - dogs and jackals often haunted the edges of the desert, especially near the cemeteries w the dead were buried. In fact, it is thought that the Egyptians began the practice of making elaborate graves and tombs to protect the dead from desecration by jackals. A statue of Anubis, jackal-form, was found in Tutankhamen 's tomb. When pet dogs died, they were mummified and buried in temples dedicated to Anubis. Early connection to other gods Originally, in the Ogdoad system, he was god of the underworld . He was said to have a wife, Anput (who was really just his female aspect, her name being his with an additional feminine suffix : the t), who was depicted exactly the same, though feminine. He is also listed to have taken to wife the feminine form of Neheb Kau, Nehebka, and Kebauet . Kebauet, the Goddess of cold water, is also listed as his daughter in some places. His father was originally Ra in many papyrus records which were found in pyramids, (Anubis was the fourth son of Ra.) But in after ages, his father was said to be Osiris , as he was the god of the dead, and his mother was said to be Nephthys . Anubis was identified as the father of Kebechet , the goddess of the purification of body organs due to be placed in canopic jars during mummification Embalmer Statuette of Anubis As one of the most important funerary rites in Egypt involved the process of embalming , so it was that Anubis became the god of embalming, in the process gaining titles such as "He who belongs to the mummy wrappings", and "He who is before the divine [embalming] booth". High priests often wore the Anubis mask to perform the ceremonial deeds of embalming. It also became said, frequently in the Book of the Dead , that it had been Anubis who embalmed the dead body of Osiris (which would make him the older sibling of Horus ), with the assistance of the other main funerary deities involved - Nephthys and Isis. Having become god of embalming...
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