ANUBIS. The Egyptians represented the god Anubis as a black jackal (a wild dog?) crouching "on his belly," or as a man with a jackal's or dog's head. Anubis is the Greek form of his Egyptian name, Anpu; the meaning of the...

Egyptian god of the dead, in the shape of a dog or a jackal; occasionally in human shape with a dog’s head. It is not certain what the name means; the meaning ‘little dog’ has been suggested. At Assiut, Anubis was known by the epithet...

(Chonti-amentiu) Egyptian god of the dead. His name means ‘he who is in the uttermost west’: it is in the west that the sun goes down, and there too is the kingdom of the dead. The god is represented as a crouching dog or jackal. In the...

Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic version is more accurately spelled Anpu (also Ano-Oobist, Anoubis, Anupu, Anbu, Wip, Ienpw, Inepu, Yinepu, Inpu, or Inpw). He is also known...