All, right, just for some trivia here, for everyone who thinks they know about Egyptian mythology...?

Question

I will give "Best Answer" to whoever is the first person to: 1. Name why Anubis (Anup) is important 2. Name the wife of Anubis in Egyptian Mythology (I understand the similarities, I just want the name) 3. Named the parents of Anubis 4. Name who Anubis is said to be the father of (this is all mythology now, not anything that is proven). Good luck...

Ok, I already said that only the first correct person is going to get the "Best Answer". Therefore, there is no reason for other people to be answering with the exact same answers, or answers that differ slightly, but are even from the exact same webpage as other answers. If you want to respond, please do not place answers that are the same as previous answers, or you will be reported for "Gaming for Points", as the form says. Thank you.

You are all so close....the first person, your parents are off, so I can't give it to you. #5: your wife is wrong, as Qadesh (Qetesh) is actually the wife of Resheph, a god from Chaldean mythology. Come on! You guys can get it!

Answer 1

1. Anubis, the jackal-god of mummification, assisted in the rites by which a dead man was admitted to the underworld. Anubis was worshipped as the inventor of embalming and who embalmed the dead Osiris and thereby helping to preserve him that he might live again.

Anubis had three important functions. He supervised the embalming of bodies. He received the mummy into the tomb and performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony and then conducted the soul in the Field of Celestial Offerings. Most importantly though, Anubis monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from deception and eternal death.

2. Anput

3. In the Ogdoad system, when Anubis was considered as god of the underworld, he was identified as the son of Ra & Hesat. However, when Ogdoad merged with the Ennead belief system (from which Anubis was considered a lesser god), he was identified as the son of Osiris & Nepthys.

4. Kebechet

Answer 2

1. Why is Anubis important: He reprsents being the God of the underworld in which he is the guardian, protector and he helps guides those who are need of finding there true self. Anpu would be his Ancient Egyptian name. Jackal-god, Lord of Death and Rebirth, "lord of the mummy wrappings", Sekhem Em Pet (name for Anubis as a son of Osiris), Sekhem Taui (name of Anubis as a form of Osiris, his father)

2. Anubis's Wife would be Qadesh
3. Osiris and Nephthys mother and father
4. The Goddess Kebechet daughter of Anubis

Answer 3

Anubis is the son of Nephthys and Set or Nephthys and Ra. Anubis is the god who deals with death, embalmation/mummification and guidance of the soul in the underworld. He is also deemed the protecter of the dead and the necropolis. His wife is Anput and his daughter is called Kebechet . Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Anubis is the son of Nephthys and Set or Nephthys and Ra. Anubis is the god who deals with death, embalmation/mummification and guidance of the soul in the underworld.
He is also deemed the protecter of the dead and the necropolis. His wife is Anput and his daughter is called Kebechet

Answer 5

Originally, in the Ogdoad system, he was god of the underworld, and his name is frequently thought to have reflected this, meaning something like putrefaction. 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. His father was originally said to be Ra, as he was the creator god, and thus his mother was said to be Hesat, Ra's wife, who later was identified as Hathor (to whom her identity was remarkably similar). As lord of the underworld, Anubis was identified as the father of Kebechet, the goddess of the purification of bodily organs due to be placed in canopic jars during mummification.

Answer 6

Anubis is important because he was the god of the underworld.His wife is Anupt.His father was Set and his mother wasNephthys .He was named father to Kebechet.

Answer 7

Important because: He was the god/gatekeeper of the underworld and his job was to protect souls as they journeyed there, and thus be the patron of lost souls. He also became the god of embalming, which was very important in the Egyptian civilization.
Wife: Anput aka Hathor
Parents: Ra and Hesat
Father of: Kebechet

Answer 8

1 god of underworld
2. anput but its only a female reflections of his own name anpu
3 father would be RA mother hesat
4 anubis is father of Kebechet, the goddess of the purification of bodily organs due to be placed in jars

Answer 9

Anubis was killed by Dannel Jackson in season seven.

Answer 10

Anubis, who the ancient Egyptians called Ienpw (phonetically "Yinepu"), is the mysterious canid funerary deity of ancient Egypt. Even the meaning of his name is unknown -- speculations range from "Royal Child" to having derived from the world for "to putrefy". Both certainly fit the deity, who was at various points in time of Egyptian history known as the lord of the dead before Osiris and, later, became popularly known as the son of Osiris.

Just what type of animal Anubis is represented by is unknown as well; definitely canid and most likely a jackal or a wild dog -- or a hybrid of both -- but, as in the case of Seth, with alterations that deliberately smudge the lines of reality. The deep black color Anubis's animal is not reflective of its actual coat but is instead symbolic of his position as a funerary deity. The reason for Anubis's animal being canid is based on what the ancient Egyptians themselves observed of the creature -- dogs and jackals often haunted the edges of the desert, especially the cemeteries where the dead were buried.

Anubis is an extremely ancient deity. The oldest mastabas of the Old Kingdom have prayers to him carved into their walls, and he is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts in his most celebrated role as a guardian and protector of the dead. A standard offering formula for the dead in the Old Kingdom began thusly:


"An offering which the king gives and Anubis, who is upon his mountain and in the place of embalming, the lord of the necropolis...."
As mentioned previously, Anubis began in the position that Osiris would later command. In the earliest period of Egyptian religion Anubis was clearly the lord of the dead and Osiris the embalmed god while Anubis performed the act of embalming. Titles that were invested unto Osiris -- such as Khenty-Imentiu or "Foremost of Westerners" -- were originally Anubis's. As the drama of Osiris's death and vindication unfolded over the centuries, Anubis assumed the role of the guide who holds steady the scales on which their hearts are measured against the feather of ma'at as "He Who Counts the Hearts". Should the heart be light as the feather, the soul would then be lead by Anubis (or, in some cases, Harseisis) to be presented to Osiris. Should the heart be heavy, it is fed to Ammit and the soul destroyed.

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 (the tomb and the necropolis). Priests wearing a mask of Anubis were responsible for the Opening of the Mouth ceremony that reawakened a dead person's senses. In a reflection of the royal seal used on the tombs of the Valley of the Kings depicting pharaoh's victory over the "nine bows" (enemies of Egypt), Anubis is shown recumbent over nine bows meant to be hostile forces of the Underworld who he -- as "Jackal Ruler of the Bows" -- has triumphed over.

Anubis's parentage is a mystery -- in one tradition he is the son of Nebt-het (Nephthys) and Ra. In yet another, from the Coffin Text period, the cow goddess Hesat is his mother and, from the same source, Bastet is even accounted as his mother (most likely a pun on the ointment jars that comprise her hieroglyphs -- the same jars that were used during the embalming process Anubis was lord of). The Pyramid Texts even supply Anubis with a daughter in the form of the goddess Qeb-hwt ("Cooling Water") -- a celestial serpent or ostrich Who purifies and quenches the monarch.

Anubis is depicted most often as a man with the head of a black canid with alert, pointed ears. He is also represented by a full black canid wearing ribbons and holding a flagellum in the crook of its arm. Very rarely is he ever shown fully human, though there are some cases (such as in the temple of Ramesses II of Abydos) of this. Perhaps the most famous representation of Anubis, the gold-gilded wooden canid found in the tomb of Tutankhamen, was doubtlessly placed there as a protector of the dead and guardian of the tomb.

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