Anubis

"We must honor the Dead as we should honor the living, they trust their vessels with us while their souls seek peace."

Following Osiris’s murder at the hands of his brother Set, Isis set out in search of his body. It was during this search that she learned her sister Nephthys had born a child with Osiris. Fearing that her husband, Set, would discover her infidelity, Nephthys abandoned the newborn child. Isis, known for her maternal benevolence, found the child and adopted him. She named the child Anubis, and he thereafter served as her loyal protector.

Following his murder, Osiris’s body was ultimately destroyed. Whether or not it was chopped into pieces—as Plutarch and other Greek historians suggest—or simply subject to natural decomposition is irrelevant. What is significant, however, is that after Osiris’s body was recovered, it was embalmed. The cultural practice of mummification was derived from this first embalming, and was intended to emulate Osiris’s journey to the afterlife.

After Isis had recovered her husband’s body, the sun god Ra asked Anubis to assist with the embalming process. With some assistance from Horus and Thoth, he wrapped the body in cloth and completed what would become known as the Opening of the Mouth ritual. This rite was meant to ensure that the mummified person’s senses would continue to work in the afterlife.

After sometime, Anubis got bored with remaining in one place and moved to Manchester to open a Funeral Home. While really no different than what he did as a God in Egypt, it was nice to be somewhere new, and considering no one really paid too much mind to him, it was easy to just... keep doing it.

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