Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife.
Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of mummification and the
afterlife. He is often depicted as a jackal-headed or a man with a jackal head.
Now in India the Jackal was considered to be a very evil
creature as it was a scavenger often of dead bodies. But during this time in
ancient kemet it was associated with a more natural aspect of death and thus
was embraced even revered.