Anubis

“He who stands at the threshold between the living and the dead, the jackal who guards the passage no one walks twice.”

Anubis is the jackal-headed god who invented embalming (performing it first on Osiris), guides the dead through the underworld, and oversees the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. He is the quintessential psychopomp — the being who escorts souls from this world to the next. The parallel to the Angel of Death in Jewish tradition is direct: both stand at the boundary between life and death, both guide souls to judgment, both serve a necessary cosmic function rather than acting out of malice. Anubis also parallels Michael in his protective role and Azrael as the angel who separates soul from body. In Egyptian funerary art, priests wore jackal masks to channel Anubis during embalming — the god was understood to be literally present at every death.