Anubis's Legend Ancient Egyptians believed that the afterlife was more important than life itself. Their life was based around their survival in the lands of the dead where trials and terrors existed. The final trial was to have your heart weighted out by Anubis. Your heart must be equally balanced with a feather. Anubis is the god that anounced your fate. To be let through to paradise, or eaten by the demon Ammut and cease to exist. But Anubis had other purposes. He was father , a protector of the dead, and a overseer of embalment. He was a underdog that ruled the dead. Origanally was believed to be the son of Ra and Hesat. Anpu, better know as Anubis in Greek, is known more commonally to be the son of Nephthys . The father was thought to…show more content… A priest with a jackel mask was always present during the embalming as well he was in in charge of the 'Opening of the mouth' ceromony where the mummy is touched by various ritual objects to awaken the human senses to be used in the next world. Once mummified it was believed that Anubis woke the soul of that mummy to the otherside. The final trial the soul must go through is the weighing of the heart. Anubis would weigh your heart on a scale next to the feather of the godess Ma'at if your heart( soul,emotion, mind) was to light, or to heavy you are feed to the demon Ammut and cease to exist. But if you heart was balanced with Ma'at's feather Anubis would lead you the gates of paradise where there were neverending wheat fields. Anubis was also the protector of the neocropolis, the tomb basically. The Egyptians believed Anubis watched over the tombs from a mountian or high vangtage point in the desert ready to defend the tombs. Anubis had two very specific themes in regards to his role to the egyptain people. One as a guide to lead the dead to paradise but also as a grim reaper to a point who represented death and decay and brought