Photo Every Day #125

Anyone who knows me will know that I love ancient Egyptian mythology, artefacts and the like. This is my statue on Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackel god. I got it for a few pounds when we visited Egypt years ago. I'd love to go to Cairo again, but it was a bit scary and we had to be escorted by a jeep full of military guys with huge guns!!

Anubis is my favourite Egyptian god as I think  he's fascinating. He's usually portrayed as half human and half jackel and is associated with the afterlife and the embalming process. Anubis is shown as a jackel as they scavenged dead bodies from graveyards. He's black to symbolise the colour of rotting flesh combined with the black soil of the Nile which is linked with rebirth. Anubis is often seen in his full jackel form sat on top of tombs, protecting the deceased, or as his half and half self weighing the heart in order to determine how worthy the deceased is in order to allow them to progress into the underworld. This process is part of the Book of the Dead, a part of the funeral process which was mean to assist the dead through the underworld and into the afterlife through the spells contained within.

Anubis:


Song Of The Day: Stone Sour - Through The Glass
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