Anubis - God of Embalming, head of jackal

Anubis invented embalming to embalm Osiris, the first mummy. He was the guide of the dead. The Egyptians embalmed their dead, especially their pharaohs, to preserve them, since they thought that this helped them live for ever.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that when u died, u travelled to the Hall of the Dead. There Anubis weighed your hart-, hart against the feather of Ma'at. Ma'at, the goddess of justice sits on top, boven of the scales to make sure that the weighing is carried out properly. u can see Anubis steadying the scales to make the weighing fair. If your hart-, hart was lighter than the feather, u lived for ever. We still talk of "a hart-, hart as light as a feather" to mean care-free, and "heavy-hearted" to mean sad. If your hart-, hart was heavier than the feather then it was eaten door the demon Ammit, the Destroyer. Ammit had the head of a crocodile, the shoulders of a lion and the rump of a hippopotamus. These were all frightening animals for the Egyptians. Thoth, god of wisom and writing, stands door to record what happens.