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[edit] older comments
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 (talk)
Huh? Well, just to clear this up...
Sekhmet is female. Anubis is male.
Sekhmet is goddess of lions, and so often has a lion's head. Anubis is god of embalming and often has a jackal's head.
Sekhmet sometimes has a big red circle on her head (which might be a sun disc like Ra's), while Anubis doesn't have one.
Sekhmet is often shown killing stuff. Anubis is shown wheighing the heart or mummifing stuff.
How can get them confused? Tutthoth-Ankhre (talk) 21:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[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)
I have seen (in an encyclopedia) a full human form of Anubis —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rikudemyx (talk • contribs) 19:51, 14 February 2008 (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.
The only known depiction of Anubis in Human form (ie head and body of a man, not the the normal anthropamorphic form) is at the temple of Ramese the 2nd at Abydos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.212.193 (talk) 07:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
[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
[edit] Anubis in popular culture
There are an awful lot of Anpu references there. I am not as Bold as I could be (please do not chomp on the newbie), so I don't want to just start deleting ones that seem trivial/stupid. Any suggestions from more seasoned Cultural Reference editors on which could go? Few of them seem to be contributing anything to the article other than the idea that Anpu is a highly-referenced deity. Shouriki 02:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- I would suggest starting with deleting references that are only similar to Anubis, such as "In the MMORPG RuneScape the God Icthlarin is similar to Anubis" and references in which Anubis only plays a minor role, such as "Anubis' name is mentioned in the song Hades by melodic death metal band Kalmah." Unless Anubis plays a major role in the movie/book/game, and there are more similarities between the character/object in the movie/book/game and Anubis than just the name, I think you'll be ok in deleting the ref.--Mbc362 14:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- I was still shocked at how much of the article was a list of trivia. I've removed items that begin with something like "Anubis is also a character in" or "Anubis also appears in". I've also removed plot synopses that are already in linked movie and TV articles.
[edit] I fail to see why
I fail to see why Anubis's page has been reduced to such a short one. A few months ago it contained more info and like a thousand pop culture refrences now...none please put them back. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rikudemyx (talk • contribs) 07:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC).
- I have to agree with you. Now the page looks more of a stub then anything; I see that other wiki pages would have such references to culture within them. Daniel (talk)
Indeed. I agree completely. Most other mythological pages have a trivia section of some kind. I see how someone like Anubis would appear in a plethora of places in pop culture, but I don't see a reason to get rid of them all. Surely we could keep an inexhaustive list of significant references. Czar Baldy Bald IV 00:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removed unsuitable sentence
The "Embalmer" section ended with the following sentence:
- As the Greeks and Christians did not embalm the bodies of their dead (and death itself was considered to be a terrifying thing), they associated the holy Anubis with disease and decay.
I removed this sentence as unsuitable for several reasons. For starters, it says that the Greeks and Christians did not embalm their dead, which may or may not be true (as far as I know), but if true it would require some source. That's a pretty broad statement.
Also, it says that Greeks and Christians considered death to be a terrifying thing. While this may (I'm not sure) have been true of the ancient Greeks, it seems like Christianity concentrates pretty hard on the promise of wonderful things after death, such as the release of the soul from earthly bondage.
It's unencyclopedic to refer to Anubis as "holy" in this way.
And lastly, if we're going to assert that Greeks and Christians associated Anubis with disease and decay, then we'll need a source that indicates that. It certainly doesn't follow that because A (Greeks and Christians did not embalm the bodies of their dead) and because B (death itself was considered to be a terrifying thing), then C (they associated Anubis with disease and decay). —CKA3KA (Skazka) 01:43, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image Under Portrayal Section
I found an image on this website: http://www.egyptianmyths.net/wepwawet.htm
It appears to be the original inspiration for the picture in the article. However, the site identifies the painting as being of Wepwawet, not Anubis. Not sure which one is right, so I thought I'd bring it up. I know the two gods eventually merged, but I'm curious if there are specific features of the iconography which distinguish one from the other prior to the merger besides the difference in color (e.g. the objects being held by the god, etc.) Macroidtoe 20:47, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
The linked article says the head of Wepwawet was grey or white and therefore possibly a wolf. the illustration in the article has a black head and is anyway a modern drawing ... and I have a feeling that Wepwawet often has the kherp scepter.Apepch7 22:54, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I hope that we can put this photo in this article http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071001/481/4cde3877cc9d4f13bd154e4f945bbff8&g=events/lf/100107goldenanubis;_ylt=Ai8NYrSmslli54jCF7bHoclY24cA it is too pretty to let vanish from the web. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_en_ot/art_anubis;_ylt=Aj7geF2gZBP8sQJK_6uz3C9Y24cA I would also like to see the section on Anubis and Hermes Trismegistus or Hermes the Thrice Blessed expanded. rumjal 21:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] cleanup, tagging and referencing
i added some refs, tagged section with "citation needed" (where i 'm convinced that we definitely need a source for this info) and rmvd a totally unsourced claim for which i couldn't find ANY refs for (if ya still want it, pls discuss on articles talk). SomeUsr|Talk|Contribs 14:12, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
