Blessings of Anubis

E-shrine for Anubis Header image by tyrantgea

[sun-hound]

“Old gods do not mean dead gods”

— me (via witch-of-artemis)

[shadow0ftheday]

Finished!

[awitchybee]

Anubis, postcard size commission. For @waltzing-with-my-inner-geek. 🌷 Emergency commissions are open! Digital and traditional, please message me for details if you are interested :)

[naturepunk]

[fuckyeahaltars]

Altar to Anubis

[hyborianbabe]

Background art from Scooby Doo, Where Are You! , by Walt Peregoy

[bvd-bones]

[the-typhonian]

Anubis, bronze, c.90-150, MNW 148140.

[otahkoapisiakii]

So I tried, but I couldn’t find any information on this other than what’s given. I’ve never seen Anpu depicted as having a serpent lower-half before? And what was on His head? A solar disk?

Can someone explain me this iconography? Is He a synchronization with a Roman deity or?

[starsandepithets]

The snake Anubis is definitely Greco-Roman.

There are a few reasons why Anubis might have been depicted this way;

- Snakes were considered guardians of doorways, and mummification is a doorway between life and the afterlife. So Anubis gained this iconography. It can also be seen in Greco-Roman period images of Anubis holding a snake.

- related to this (but it’s unclear which came first) there is a Greco-Roman period retelling of the mummification of Osiris, where Anubis turns into a snake to do it.

- It might have something to do with Hermenubis, but I couldn’t find anything concrete…

- Isis was also frequently depicted with a bottom half of a snake, during this period. It may have some connection, but again. I could only find little references rather than anything concrete…

Hope this was helpful :)

[zooophagous]

Anup and Anupet (female counterpart) for a great client. Commissions are always open.

[assassin1513]

|Anubis| |Edit made by me :)|

[daphnaea]

the gods in new colors: anubis + green

We all turn to dust in the end

[vintagepromotions]

Poster for the International Jazz Festival in Dortmund, Germany (1976). Designed by Günther Kieser.

[weles3-blog]

Hermanubis

[soraiko]

XVI The Tower

[sha-beasts-and-jackals]

I finished it!!!

[artisticlog-deactivated20231213]

Don’t shrink yourself 🌻

[howlsnteeth]

@tigerbuttinspace; “Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you must be, Prepare for death, and follow me.” around a canine skull maybe? >w>