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That statuette picture looks like Sekhmet, not Anubis. Can someone confirm this?
coyo 00:07, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
General points to consider:
- Anubis was never shown in human form.
- Anubis was a jackal not a dog
- Jackals have quite cat-like ears
- Sekhmet is a lioness not a cat
- Sekhmet is usually naked
The appearance of the statue suggests to me that it is anubis. ~~~~ 01:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
While the Anubis statue does seem decently endowed, that probably just means it's Anput rather than Anubis proper. --165.134.195.72 00:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- Anput IS Anubis. "Anubis" is the greek rendering of the egyptian word that was written "ANP"/"ANPT", and is usually transliterated by Egyptologists as "Anup" or "Anput". And penis size has nothing to do with it. --Victim of signature fascism | help remove biblecruft 21:23, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Any info on what species of jackal he would have been?--Sonjaaa 00:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Any that looks like his statues. That's really absolutely all we have to go on at the moment - just what he looks like. --Victim of signature fascism 23:28, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
There is a wierd species of dog in northern Africa that is something of a matter for cryptozoology that supposedly has some features that match, however. --Victim of signature fascism | help remove biblecruft 21:25, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
He's mostly jackal, with some wild dog thrown in. If he was given the image by jackals and such looming around grave sites, then it would be more obvious. Black, the colour, was assoicated with death. Add the two together. -Daniel W. Blackwell
[edit] Anubis in Human Form
IMHO, the human form bearing the head of the jackal animal, IS his human form. The animal form is usually shown on all fours. --MagicPath111 05:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Anubis was a master at the weighing of the heart ceremony, and how he did it is by having a feather and the dead person's heart, and if the heart was heavier than the feather, then you have done many bad things in your life and you will go to hell, but if you have done good things in your life, you will go to heaven and your heart will be lighter than the feather. If your heart was even with the scale, you shall go nowhere.
- I dont know what that has to do with his human form. -Daniel W. Blackwell
[edit] Greek
Trying to find Anubis in Classical Greek to add to the article. I found the Modern Greek Άνουβις in the Greek wikipedia. Perhaps the Classical Greek form is the same as the Modern Greek word.
However, I would transliterate Άνουβις as Hanubis. Was Anubis a mistranliteration to English?
Sleigh 19:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anubis's Family
When I was reading this article, under the "Lord of the Dead" heading was the line "and shu his mother was said to be". This is very awkward in English, so I changed it to "and his mother was said to be Shu". Looking up Shu (Egyptian deity), this doesn't seem right. I don't know, so I'm not changing it. Someone who knows Egyptian mythology should probably check this entire section for accuracy. Garnet avi 15:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC) hi
