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By the late pharaonic era (664–332 BC), Anubis was often depicted as guiding individuals across the threshold from the world of the living to the afterlife. Though a similar role was sometimes performed by the cow-headed [[Hathor]], Anubis was more commonly chosen to fulfill that function. Greek writers from the Roman period of Egyptian history designated that role as that of "psychopomp," 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. | By the late pharaonic era (664–332 BC), Anubis was often depicted as guiding individuals across the threshold from the world of the living to the afterlife. Though a similar role was sometimes performed by the cow-headed [[Hathor]], Anubis was more commonly chosen to fulfill that function. | ||
Greek writers from the Roman period of Egyptian history designated that role as that of "psychopomp," 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. Plutarch believed Anubis filled a similar role as [[Hecate]], saying, "Anubis seems to be of much the same power and nature as the Grecian Hecate, a deity common both to the celestial and infernal regions." | |||
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. | |||
===Weigher of hearts=== | ===Weigher of hearts=== | ||