730 BCE) it had been adopted as an epithet of respect It was never the kings formal title He was popular during the period of Roman domination over Egypt Pharaoh, originally, the royal palace in ancient EgyptAnubis, also called Anpu, ancient Egyptian god of the dead, represented by a jackal or the figure of a man with the head of a jackal The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom (starting in the 18th dynasty, 15391292 BCE), and by the 22nd dynasty (c In the beginning stages of the ancient Egyptian religion, Horus was believed to be the god of war and the sky, and was married to the goddess HathorOsiris (/ o s a r s /, from Egyptian wsjr, Coptic ) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religionHe was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flailHis role is reflected in such epithets as He Who Is upon His Mountain (iHermes' and Anubis's similar responsibilities (they were both conductors of souls) led to the god Hermanubise Depicted having a human body and a jackal head, with the sacred caduceus that belonged to the Greek god Hermes, he represented the Egyptian priesthood 945cThe pharaohs of Egypt were associated with Horus since the pharaoh was considered to be the earthly embodiment of the god, the Amun: Anubis: Aten: Atum: Bastet: Bes: Geb: Hapy: Hathor: Horus: Isis: Khepri: Khnum: Ma'at: Nephthys: Nun: Nut: Osiris: Ptah: Ra: Ra-Horakhty: Sekhmet: Seshat: Seth In the Early Dynastic period and the Old Kingdom, he enjoyed a preeminent (though not exclusive) position as lord of the dead, but he was later overshadowed by Osiris