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Brewer's: Anubis
In Egyptian mythology, similar to the Hermës of Greece, whose office it was to take the souls of the dead before the judge of the infernal regions. Anubis is represented with a human body and jackal's head.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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