Anubis
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Anubis was interested in funeral customs and afterlife care. He was frequently shown as a jackal or as a man with a jackal’s head. The Egyptians would have seen jackals scavenging around cemeteries, which is probably how the relationship between jackals and death and funerals came about.
Prior to Osiris being well-known as the ruler of the afterlife in the Old Kingdom (c. 2575–2130 BCE), Anubis was regarded as the main deity of the dead. The dead king’s body was embalmed and wrapped by Anubis, who afterward became the patron god of embalmers, according to the Osiris myth.
