The center of his cult was in Cynopolis and he was known in ancient times as Ienpw [yin-EP-oo]. His better known name is thought to mean "to putrefy," which befits the office 
The center of his cult was in Cynopolis and he was known in ancient times as Ienpw [yin-EP-oo]. His better known name is thought to mean "to putrefy," which befits the office he held until it was taken over by another god. This "lord of the necropolis" is the son of Nephthys and Ra, and allows souls to be either devoured by Ammit or led to Osiris after weighing them against the feather of truth. FTP, identify this jackal-headed Egyptian deity that, before Osiris, was the god of the dead.
The center of his cult was in Cynopolis and he was known in ancient times as Ienpw [yin-EP-oo].
{Anubis}