Anubis at Abydos
Egyptian Gods and Their Cult Centers

Enrich your trip to Egypt, learn more about the Ancient Gods whose monuments and temples you will s e on your Egypt Tour. Take day tours around Cairo to Memphis and Saqqara for sites of Gods of Lower Egypt. Travel by prearranged speciality excursions for the Gods of Middle Egypt. Many monuments and temples for the God of Upper Egypt are located in and around Luxor. Tours of Abydos and Dendera can be made by special arrangement. Visit other sites in Upper Egypt by Nile Cruise, Elephantine Island, home of Khnum the creator god is located in Aswan.

Anubis

Anubis was the son of Nephthys and Seth. He is the jackel headed god associated with embalming. He is an ancient god who was worshiped all over Egypt. At Saqqara there was a place known as Anubeion where mummified dogs and jackals were ritually buried.

Anubis had an ancient cult center at Abydos which became a centre of the cult of Osiris. In th Old Kingdom prayers were addressed to to Anubis for the survival of the deceased in the afterlife. He was surplanted by Osiris in the underworld mythology, but remained to be part of the judgement in the weighing of the heart.

The following epithets speak of Anubis: "Foremost of the westerners" (the West where the dead were buried); "He who is upon his mountain" (the desert cliffs overlooking the cemetaries); "Lord of Sacred Lands" (the desert where the dead were buried); "The one presiding over the god's pavillion (The place where the embalming was done, or the burial chamber); "He who is in the place of embalming".

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