Underworld Deities

Deities presiding over death and the realm of the dead, the counterpart this browse structure's existing Sea, Sky, Earth, Celestial and Road Guardian Deities headings had not yet been given. In Egyptian narrative tradition Anubis is the jackal-headed god who presides over embalming and guides the dead into the afterlife, assisting Isis and Nephthys in embalming Osiris after his murder and serving from then on as the deity most closely tied to the passage from death into the afterlife.