Anubis (Anu`bis) , an Egyptian deity with the body of a man and the head of a jackal, whose office, like that of Hermes, it was to see to the disposal of the souls of the dead in the nether world, on quitting the body.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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