The Egyptians didn't worship the animals, but the forces of nature
that they symbolized. Anubis, God of the Dead, represented with a
head of a jackal or simply as a jackal opened the road to the other
world and presided over embalmments. After a funeral, Anubis would
take the deceased by the hand and introduce him into the presence of
the sovereign judges where the soul of the deceased would be weighed.
Anubis was the Guardian of Offerings brought to the ceremony by heirs
of the deceased and he also guarded the mummy from evil forces in the
night. When the body was embalmed, a priest wearing a jackal mask
acted as Anubis's representative. He also was the guardian of the
Sacred Esoteric Mysteries. The origin of this God lay in the fact
that jackals could be heard howling in the desert to the west of the
Nile at sunset-at the time when burials took place.

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