BY MAKAYLA B.
11 YEARS OLD
In the last article I wrote about the Egyptian Goddess Bast or also known as Bastet the Goddess of cats, but this time I’m going to be writing about an Egyptian God. A God known for embalming the dead and preparing them for the afterlife. The God’s name is Anubis.
Anubis is also known as Anpu, Inpu, Lenpu, Imeut, and Yinpu. Anubis is the son of the Egyptian Goddess Nephthys, and the God who brings hell to the other God, Seth. Seth is the God of red desert sand, which meant the Egyptians could not plant crops there. He is also the God of: storms, darkness, chaos, disorder, destruction and you guessed it EVIL.
Anubis despised his father, because who wouldn’t? Seth had buddies throughout the different cultures in the world: Sekhmet an Egyptian Goddess, Hel, a Goddess from the Vikings, and Coatlicue from the Aztecs.
Now, what about his mother? She was different. After her husband Seth put her brother in law in a coffin and scattered the cut pieces of the body, Nephthys helped her sister Isis collect the pieces. She helped her put him back together. So she turned her back on her husband and helped her sister. Nephthys is one of those powerful Goddesses that are kind and gentle.
After hearing about Anubis’s devastatingly, gorgeous mom and his mind-blowingly, horrid father:
What do you think of him?
How do you think he acts?
Do you think he’s evil like his father or kind like his mom?
I will be sharing more about Anubis in the next edition.
