![]() At the tomb, the priest could have held the mummy during the Opening of the Mouth ceremony to give the dead person the power to eat, move and breathe. ![]() When a corpse was mummified the priests could have worn jackal-headed masks and maybe prayed to Anubis. Later in mythology, however, it does describe him as Set's son.Īnubis may have been one of the most important of Egyptian gods. Nephthys' betrayal played a role in Set's desire to kill Osiris. ![]() Rather than the son of Set, he may be the son of Osiris and Nephthys, the result of the goddess, possibly, tricking Osiris. In early Egyptian mythology, Anubis may have different parentage. ![]() Anubis himself is skeptical of this, knowing that he is a "different" child, and is not a warrior. Anubis was born to Nephthys and Set, but was immediately given to Osiris and Isis by Nephthys he claimed that she did not want him to know his father. ![]()
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