: a jackal-headed god in Egyptian mythology who leads the dead to judgment
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The deepest chamber, nicknamed the Treasury, was guarded by a huge black jackal, representing the god Anubis, with a linen cloak, collar of blue flowers, claws of silver, and ears and eyes of gold.
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Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
According to Reuters, archaeologists also found statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor.
—Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2022
In another, Anubis faces off with Death in a chess match borrowed from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
—Christopher Ross, WSJ, 4 June 2021
The jackal is associated with Anubis, god of death; the falcon with Horus, god of the sky; the hippopotamus with Taweret, goddess of fertility.
—Nathaniel J. Dominy, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
According to Reuters, archaeologists also found statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor.
—Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2022
In another, Anubis faces off with Death in a chess match borrowed from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
—Christopher Ross, WSJ, 4 June 2021
The jackal is associated with Anubis, god of death; the falcon with Horus, god of the sky; the hippopotamus with Taweret, goddess of fertility.
—Nathaniel J. Dominy, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
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Etymology
Latin, from Greek Anoubis, from Egyptian inpw
First Known Use
1567, in the meaning defined above
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