What was the egyptian god anbuis power?

Question

What was the egyptian god anbuis power?

Answer 1

aparently the god of the dead, which would have made him very important.

Answer 2

Anubis was one of many gods of the dead.  He weighed the souls of the dead for judgement.  If a soul was lighter than a feather it was considered good and allowed to go on to the Egyptian equivalent of heaven.  If it weighed more than a feather it was evil and got thrown to a monster that devoured it.  That was pretty much all Anubis did.  He had a lot of souls to weigh I guess.

Answer 3

Darren S is pretty spot on.. In alot of theology which is polytheistic gods don't necessarily have powers but certain task which they preform and Anubis's was as a god associated with the underworld and reading from the book of the dead.

Answer 4

I think you mean "Anubis", which made him the god of embalming, or mummification.  He wasn't technically god of the dead.  He was the son of the first pharaoh, Osiris, and had helped his mother gather the pieces of his body and put them back together after he was murdered by his brother Seth.  This connected him to the process of embalming.  He had the head of a jackel, presumably because, as scavengers, jackels used to dig up dead bodies in the period before they were intered in tombs and sarcophagi.  Anubis also walked the soul of the dead through the process of judgement after they died.