Deities prodigious #5

He is the lord of the necropolis or Lord of the holy land, the sovereign in the Egyptian world of the dead also known as the embalmer of the gods... executor of the trials, charged with judging the dead, accompanying the deceased before the court, guiding the dead in the afterlife with the moonlight, and monitoring the balance in which the hearts are weighed during the trial... It is Anubis, god of death, represented sometimes as a dog that accompanies Isis, but usually Anubis is portrayed as a man who has black head of jackal by those his priests wore masks of that same animal in their temples, all this is due to the reason that the jackal dog possesses his habit of digging up graves to feed and to prowl the cemeteries or resting places of the dead... Also must be added to this fact that it represented as a dog also has another cause because this animal for the Egyptians is able to see both in the daylight as in the darkness during the night, thing is able to represent the duality death and resurrection own... In this logic representational black also plays an important role because for the Egyptians this color represents the rot of the bodies, the darkness and the death although at the same time this is the color with which they associate to the fertile land and also considered one of the colors used to represent the resurrection in that old age far behind...