Underworld
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The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical
Juno in the Underworld by Jan Brueghel the Younger, between 1626 and 1630
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Buddhist hell
Anubis
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Anubis, also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a
Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased.
The Opening of the Mouth ceremony being performed on a mummy before the tomb. Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased. Extract from the Papyrus of Hunefer, a 19th-Dynasty Book of the Dead (c. 1300 BC)
The "weighing of the heart," from the book of the dead of Hunefer. Anubis is portrayed as guiding the deceased forward and manipulating the scales, under the scrutiny of the ibis-headed Thoth.
Anubis in a fully humanoid form, Ramesses II temple, Abydos, Egypt.