Anubis

Family: Egyptian gods · Role: son of Nephthys · First appears: The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 5

In Plutarch’s “Isis and Osiris,” Anubis was born to Nephthys and Osiris, then exposed as an infant when Nephthys feared her husband Typhon’s anger. Isis searched for the child, found him with the help of dogs, and raised him; in time, he became her guard and attendant and was named Anubis.

Relationship record

Life events

• Isis found and raised Nephthys's exposed child, who became her guard and attendant and was named Anubis.(The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 5)
  • With: Isis
  • “Accordingly, after much pains and difficulty, by means of some dogs that conducted her to the place where it was, she found it and bred it up; and in process of time it became her constant guard and attendant, and obtained the name of Anubis, and it is thought that it watches and guards the gods as dogs do men.”

The History of Isis and Osiris, collected by Plutarch · Part 5

• parent: Nephthys “Isis meanwhile having been informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwittingly enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland which he had left with her, made it her business likewise to search out the child, the fruit of this unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typhon, had exposed it as soon as it was born).”
• guardian: Isis “Accordingly, after much pains and difficulty, by means of some dogs that conducted her to the place where it was, she found it and bred it up; and in process of time it became her constant guard and attendant, and obtained the name of Anubis, and it is thought that it watches and guards the gods as dogs do men.”
• parent: Osiris “Isis meanwhile having been informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwittingly enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland which he had left with her, made it her business likewise to search out the child, the fruit of this unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typhon, had exposed it as soon as it was born).”

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Extracted from the original text of Legends of the Gods. Made with Rho MD.