Anubis - 137/365

Anubis weighs the hearts of the dead against Maat (a word embodying truth, balance, morality, etc) represented as a feather. If the heart is heavier than the feather, the soul is devoured by a lion/hippopotamus/crocodile demoness called Ammit.

Interesting little fact from the wikipedia article: Even though Anubis is one of the most well-known Egyptian gods, he plays almost no role in any myths. Guess he's just kind of there. Weighing shit.

One of his symbols is a fetish, which is an animal skin stretched on a pole, but I advise against looking up "Anubis fetish" because of course you shouldn't.

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