His more common name comes from the words for "golden dawn", and it was he who protected people against Ammut, the "devourer."  
His cult began at Thinis and Lycopolis, and he was also worshipped as Upuaut, the rabbit-headed "Opener of the Ways."  His more common name comes from the words for "golden dawn", and it was he who protected people against Ammut, the "devourer."  The keeper of poisons and medicines, this son of Nephthys performs the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony and weighs the feather of Maat against a human heart. FTP name this patron of embalming, the jackal-headed god who performs the funeral of Osiris.
His cult began at Thinis and Lycopolis, and he was also worshipped as Upuaut, the rabbit-headed "Opener of the Ways."  
Anubis