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 आप died, आप travelled to the Hall of the Dead. There Anubis weighed your दिल against the feather of Ma'at. Ma'at, the goddess of justice sits on चोटी, शीर्ष of the scales to make sure that the weighing is carried out properly. आप can see Anubis steadying the scales to make the weighing fair. If your दिल was lighter than the feather, आप lived for ever. We still talk of "a दिल as light as a feather" to mean care-free, and "heavy-hearted" to mean sad. If your दिल was heavier than the feather then it was eaten द्वारा 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 जानवर for the Egyptians. Thoth, god of wisom and writing, stands द्वारा to record what happens.