* Some ancient Egyptian statues of Anubis read ,"... I am death ... I eat ambrosia and drink blood ..." which hints that ambrosia is a food of some sort.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

The oldest known mention of Anubis is in the Old Kingdom pyramid texts, where he is associated with the burial of the pharaoh.

Anubis ' wife is a goddess called Anput.

Anubis is a son of Ra in early myths, but later he became known as son of Set and Nephthys, and he helped Isis mummify Osiris.

Anubis is also known as the god of mummification and death.

Usually, Anubis is portrayed as the son of Nephthys and Set, Osiris ' brother and the god of the desert and darkness.

* Anubis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις ) is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

In the Egyptian religious illustration to the right, Anubis is using a balance scale to weigh the heart of Hunefer.

The most intimidating Orbital Frame, Anubis, is his frame of choice in his mission to eliminate the universe.

Amongst these mortuary texts, at the beginning of the 4th dynasty, is found: " An offering the king gives and Anubis ".

In the three scenes from the Book of the Dead ( version from ~ 1375 BC ) the dead man ( Hunefer ) is taken into the judgement hall by the jackal-headed Anubis.

* In The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, the clown-magician Horrabin is introduced performing a morbid version of the Punch story.

Despite wearing fearsome armor in the forms of Anubis and Horus, Ra's guards and servants are human ; a blue-jewelled button on each of their wrist-guards is activated to retract the metallic god-masks over their heads and into their collars.

Ashbless is, however, best known in his incarnation as a 19th century poet, in which guise he appears in Powers ' The Anubis Gates ( 1983 ) and as a lesser character in Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ).

The tale describes both why Anubis is seen as an underworld deity ( he becomes a son of Osiris ), and why he could not inherit Osiris's position ( he was not a legitimate heir in this new birth scenario ), neatly preserving Osiris's position as lord of the underworld.

Old Coptic texts employ many such words, phrases and epithets ; for example, the word '( Who is ) in ( His ) Mountain ', is an epithet of Anubis.

Deciding the weight of " truth " by weighing the Heart against Ma ' at, who was often depicted as an ostrich feather, Anubis dictated the fate of souls.

In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against Ma ' at, the goddess of truth, who was sometimes depicted symbolically as an ostrich feather.

However, there are innovators amongst the Goa ' uld ; Anubis and Ba ' al in particular have been depicted with a great deal of technological ingenuity.

With this connection, Anubis became the patron god of embalmers: during the funerary rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a priest wearing the jackal mask supporting the upright mummy.

Thus, for example, the funerary god Anubis was portrayed as a jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threatened the preservation of the body, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection.

The goddesses find and restore Osiris ' body, often with the help of other deities, including Thoth, a deity credited with great magical and healing powers, and Anubis, the god of embalming and funerary rites.

Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumes different roles in various contexts.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the fields of Aaru (; Egyptian: < hiero > M17-G1-D21-G43-M2-M2-M2 </ hiero > iArw meaning " reeds ") ( alternatives: Yaaru, Iaru, Aalu ) or the Egyptian reed fields, are the heavenly paradise, where Osiris ruled after he became part of the Egyptian pantheon and displaced Anubis in the Ogdoad tradition.

A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead written on papyrus showing the Weighing of the Heart in Duat where Anubis can be seen on the far right, the scales are shown with the feather balance, and Ammit awaits hearts that she must devour-the presence of Osiris at the gateway to the paradise of Aaru dates the papyrus to a late tradition of the myth.

Osiris cultivates life where he can, while Anubis works to destroy it.

The Movie: Pyramid of Light which occurs after Battle City and in the Paradise arcs, where the film villain Anubis uses the titular item, much like the Millennium Puzzle in an attempt to destroy the God cards and revive the power of Dark using Kaiba's Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon.

Yugi and Téa Gardner go to the local museum where Anubis ' corpse and the Pyramid of Light are on display, meeting up with Yugi's Grandpa Solomon, who reads a prophecy describing a clairvoyant eye which will prevent the world's destruction if blinded.

The three enter compressed space, where Dingo battles Anubis along the way.

Elizabeth Weir selected him for the Atlantis Expedition and stationed him at the Ancient outpost in Antarctica, where the SG-1 team had defeated the arch nemesis Anubis in the Stargate SG-1 season seven finale, " Lost City ".

The Minotaur was thought to be buried by rubble, only to resurface in the series finale, where he helped the O ' Connells stop Imhotep from raising the Army of Anubis.

Because of the often shady places where the plants grow, the genus was named after the Egyptian god Anubis, the god of the afterlife.

When Samantha Carter told Jack O ' Neill in the original draft where she had sent Anubis, O ' Neill responded " Well, I hope he wore his warm socks.

Anubis, rid of his last obstacle, fires the superweapon at the pyramid on Abydos, where Jack is, and Jack slips through the event horizon of the Abydos Stargate and back to the SGC just in time.

For example, the sky god ( Horus ) was essentially to be represented with a falcon ’ s head, the god of funeral rites ( Anubis ) was to be always shown with a jackal ’ s head.

Lime Pictures, along with Nickelodeon Productions and Studio 100, is producing House of Anubis, shown on Nickelodeon.

File: Anubis attending the mummy of Sennedjem. jpg | Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased.

It is also said that that Kebechet helped purify the mummies for Anubis.

The player finds himself battling hordes of evil creatures including mummies, Anubis soldiers, scorpions and evil spirits.