Anubis (𓃢) — Guide of the Dead, Threshold Guardian

Inpu (Anubis) is the jackal-headed neter who presides over mummification and guides the deceased through the perilous passages of the Duat to the Hall of Two Truths. The Book of the Dead depicts him adjusting the scales during the Weighing of the Heart, ensuring the ceremony's precision before Thoth records the verdict. As 'He Who Is Upon His Mountain' (Tepy-dju-ef) and 'Lord of the Sacred Land' (Neb-ta-djeser), he guards the boundary between the living and the dead — the liminal threshold that every ka must cross. The Pyramid Texts assign him the role of embalmer of Osiris himself, making Anubis the originator of the funerary arts that ensure the ba's safe passage.

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