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Anubis is the God of Death and guardian of the Egyptian Underworld.[2]
History
Anubis is the adulterous son of Osiris and Nephthys,[3] acting as his father's assistant in the judgment of souls in the Underworld. At the entrance to Da'at, the Egyptian underworld, Anubis weighs the heart of the deceased in the scales of justice: if the heart is heavier than the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of justice, the soul will be devoured by the crocodile-headed goddess Ammit; but if not, the soul has a free passage into the afterlife.[2]
Modern era
In the modern era as the gods of the Egyptian pantheon and their power waned, Anubis was one of the few who possessed formidable power and sought to elevate his station. Knowing those of pharaoh lineage could oppose him, he targeted the Nassour bloodline. As he attempted to kill a young Muhammed Nassour and his father, the elder Nassour sealed Anubis away with a prayer a Pharaoh can invoke to banish Anubis back to the house of the dead, but at the cost of his own life and a traumatized Muhammed, who remembers Anubis as the jackal. The prayer only banished Anubis for a few decades.[4]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Godly Physiology: As a deity of ancient Egyptian religion, Anubis possess various godly powers and attributes.
- Immortality: Anubis's godly heritage allows him to not age or die conventionally.
- Self-Sustenance: Anbuis was able to survive his head being severed in his sleep.[3]
- Weather Manipulation: Anubis can conjure storms and lightning.[5]
- Size Alteration: Anubis can alter his size at will.[6]
- Electrokinesis: Anubis can project lightning through storms and at will.[5]
- Hydrokinesis: Anubis can control water at will.[7]
- Animal Control: Anubis has a innate connection and power to control other canine-based animals such as wolves, dogs, and jackals.[8]
- Possession: Anubis can possess other canine based animals to act as a avatar.[8]
- Curses: Anubis can afflict various curses to an effect, such as creating the Dogwelder in retaliation of severing his head and replacing it with a jackal's.[3]
- Ectokinesis: As a god presider over the deceased, Anubis has control over the souls of others; he once ensured Khalid Nassour was alive and consious when he was killed by the god's actions within the Duat.[9]
- Duat Empowerment: While within the Duat, Anubis is at his most potent and supreme in power. He can only be rivaled by Thoth or other upper gods of the Egyptian pantheon.[9]
Abilities
Weaknesses
- Power Limitation: Within the mortal world or when low on power, Anubis is reduce to a dog-like form.[9]
- Vulnerability to the Blood of Pharaohs: Anubis exhibits a weakness to magical abilities performed by those of Pharaoh lineage and a acting Pharaoh. Those within the Nassour bloodline have both sealed him away and defeated him when the power was invoked, be it through prayer or magic.[4][9]
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Notes
- This character or object is an adaptation of Anubis, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
Trivia
- Unlike traditional mythology, Anubis's relationship with Isis differs, as she is depicted as not accepting him. Furthermore, Anubis originally possess a more human-looking appearance that was said to be the spitting image of Osiris until his head was beheaded in his sleep by a blacksmith who would become the Dogwelder.[3]
- According to Isis, she believed Anubis to be dimwitted and lacked imagination although Osiris asserted that he also was somewhat cunning despite appearances. The latter part of his personality was exuberated after his head was replaced with that of a jackal.[3]
Related
- 20 Appearances of Anubis (Prime Earth)
- 6 Images featuring Anubis (Prime Earth)
- 1 Quotations by or about Anubis (Prime Earth)
- Character Gallery: Anubis (Prime Earth)
Footnotes
- ↑ Lucifer (Volume 3) #10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lucifer (Volume 3) #8
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin' Heroz #4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #5
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #5
- ↑ Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #3
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #2
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #7
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #12
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