Anubis Statue – Anubis, the Egyptian god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld
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“Anubis Anew” is a Side Quest in Wizard101 and the Death Spell Quest for the Selenopolis and Spell Weaving expansion. It is given by Qismah Shasa in the Arcanum and unlocked after the completion of the Selenopolis Mainline Quest “Dark Gripe of the Moon.” The Spell “Anubis” is given upon completion.
After completing the stages of the quest as given by Qismah Shasa, this is the exchange your Wizard has with the Ammut Statue in Selenopolis.
Unknown RUMBLING
Anubis Statue: Face me! Look upon death itself and despair. You have proven yourself worthy to stand in my presence and retain your soul…
Anubis Statue: …for now.
Anubis Statue: Take my power, call me in battle, offer more souls to me to keep my favor.
Anubis, also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.
Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumed different roles in various contexts. Depicted as a protector of graves as early as the First Dynasty (c. 3100 – c. 2890 BC), Anubis was also an embalmer. By the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BC) he was replaced by Osiris in his role as lord of the underworld. One of his prominent roles was as a god who ushered souls into the afterlife. He attended the weighing scale during the “Weighing of the Heart”, in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead. Anubis is one of the most frequently depicted and mentioned gods in the Egyptian pantheon; however, few major myths involved him.
Anubis was depicted in black, a color that symbolized regeneration, life, the soil of the Nile River, and the discoloration of the corpse after embalming. Anubis is associated with Wepwawet, another Egyptian god portrayed with a dog’s head or in canine form, but with grey or white fur. Historians assume that the two figures were eventually combined. Anubis’ female counterpart is Anput. His daughter is the serpent goddess Kebechet.
In Egypt’s Early Dynastic period (c. 3100 – c. 2686 BC), Anubis was portrayed in full animal form, with a “jackal” head and body. A jackal god, probably Anubis, is depicted in stone inscriptions from the reigns of Hor-Aha, Djer, and other pharaohs of the First Dynasty. Since Predynastic Egypt, when the dead were buried in shallow graves, jackals had been strongly associated with cemeteries because they were scavengers which uncovered human bodies and ate their flesh. In the spirit of “fighting like with like,” a jackal was chosen to protect the dead, because “a common problem (and cause of concern) must have been the digging up of bodies, shortly after burial, by jackals and other wild dogs which lived on the margins of the cultivation.”
In the Old Kingdom, Anubis was the most important god of the dead. He was replaced in that role by Osiris during the Middle Kingdom (2000–1700 BC). In the Roman era, which started in 30 BC, tomb paintings depict him holding the hand of deceased persons to guide them to Osiris.
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Anubis Statue image is Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Anubis drawing is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright Jeff Dahl and is shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons license.
Tutankhamun’s Anubis Shrine image is borrowed from the Egypt-museum.com website. No copyright is given at the page. I assume copyright is the Egypt Museum
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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