Identifier: cu31924092320518 (find matches)
Title: The gods of the Egyptians : or, Studies in Egyptian mythology
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Mythology, Egyptian
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pt at least Anubis was the great god of theUnderworld, and his rank and importance seem to have been asgreat as those of Osiris. (See Chapter liii.) In the Judgment Scene Anubis appears to act for Osiris, withwhom he is intimately connected, for it is he whose duty it is toexamine the tongue of the Great Balance, and to take care thatthe beam is exactly horizontal. Thoth acts on behalf of the GreatCompany of the gods, and Anubis not only produces the heart ofthe deceased for judgment, but also takes care that the body whichhas been committed to his charge shall not be handed over to theEater of the Dead by accident. The vignette of the xxvithChapter of the Book of the Dead, as given in the Papyrus of Ani,represents the deceased in the act of receiving a necklace andpectoral from Anubis, who stands by grasping his sceptre ; in thevignette of the Chapter in the Papyrus of Nebseni Anubis is seenpresenting the heart itself to the deceased, and in the text below 1 Lanzone, op. cit., p. 68.
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ANUBIS, THE God of the Dead. DUTIES OF ANUBIS 263 Nebseni prays, saying, May Anubis make my thighs firm so that I may stand upon them. In allusion to his connexion withthe embalmment of Osiris the god Anubis is called Am Ut, 0 -) - ^.^ O, i.e., Dweller in the chamber of embalmment; as the watcher in the place of purification wherein rested the chestcontaining the remains of Osiris he was called Khent Sehet, ^^ i.e., Governor of the Hall of the Grod; and one of his names as the god of the funeral mountain was Tep-tu-e, ® ^^=—, i.e., he who is upon his hill. In the cxlvth Chapter I I Djm) ■ ^ of the Book of the Dead the deceased says, I have washed myself in the water wherein the god Anpu washed when he had performed the office of embalmer and bandager; and elsewherethe deceased is told (clxx. 4) that Anpu, who is upon his hill, hath set thee in order, and he hath fastened for thee thyswathings, thy throat is the throat of Anubis (clxxii. 22), and thy face is like that of Anubis (c

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