Editing Anubis (section)

===Historical Mythology===
In one of the many Osiris myths (Jumilhac papyrus) where Anubis protected the body of Osiris from Set. Set attempted to attack the body of Osiris by transforming himself into a leopard. Anubis stopped and subdued Set, however, and he branded Set's skin with a hot iron rod. Anubis then flayed Set and wore his skin as a warning against evil-doers who would desecrate the tombs of the dead. Priests who attended to the dead wore leopard skin in order to commemorate Anubis' victory over Set. The legend of Anubis branding the hide of Set in leopard form was used to explain how the leopard got its spots.

In the Osiris myth, Anubis helped Isis to embalm Osiris. It was said that after Osiris had been killed by Set, Osiris's organs were given to Anubis as a gift. With this connection, Anubis became the patron god of embalmers; during the rites of mummification, illustrations from the Book of the Dead often show a wolf-mask-wearing priest supporting the upright mummy.

Later Anubis was often depicted as guiding individuals across the threshold from the world of the living to the afterlife. Hathor was also found in this role, Anubis was more commonly depicted. Greek writers from the Roman period of Egyptian history designated that role as that of "psychopomp", originally a Greek term meaning "guide of souls" that they used to refer to their own god Hermes, who also played that role in Greek religion. Funerary art from that period represents Anubis guiding either men or women dressed in Greek clothes into the presence of Osiris, who by then had long replaced Anubis as ruler of the underworld.

Weighing of the heart
The "weighing of the heart," from the book of the dead. Anubis is portrayed as both guiding the deceased forward and manipulating the scales, under the scrutiny of the ibis-headed Thoth with Ammit and Ma'at present. 

One of the roles of Anubis was as the "Guardian of the Scales." The critical scene depicting the weighing of the heart, in the Book of the Dead, shows Anubis performing a measurement that determined whether the person was worthy of entering the realm of the dead (the underworld, known as Duat). By weighing the heart of a deceased person against Ma'at), who was often represented as an ostrich feather, Anubis dictated the fate of souls. Souls heavier than a feather would be nomed by Ammit, and souls lighter than a feather would ascend to the afterlife of Osiris.