“An offering which the king gives and Anubis, who is upon his mountain and in the place of embalming, the lord of the necropolis….”

Anubis was the lord of the dead. All of Anubis’s original titles were taken to Osiris.  When Osiris died, Anubis took the role of the measuring hearts against the feather of ma’at as “He Who Counts the Hearts”.If the heart was pure, Anubis guides it to Osiris. If the heart was heavy with sins then it is fed to Ammit and the soul was distroyed.

“As Imy-ut, or “He Who is In the Place of Embalming”, Anubis is the embalmer who washes the entrails of the dead and guards over their physical bodies as well as the places that house them”

Where Anubis comes from is a mystery. In one century, he is the son of Nephthys and Ra. In another he is the son of Hesat and Bastet and has a daughter in the form of the goddess Qeb-hwt.

Anubis is most recongnized as a man with the head of a canid and pointed ears. It is rare that he is shown fully human although there are cases of this.

Anubis was worshipped throughout Egypt, but the center of his cult was in Cynopolis (Upper Egypt).

The name of Anubis in hieroglyphs.

This is where I got the information: http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/africa/egyptian/articles.html

This is where I got the picture: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Anubis_standing.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Anubis_standing.jpg&h=1126&w=556&sz=206&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=_Yg33jxwbfqa3M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAnubis%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den