Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection[1] using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.
The Weighing of the Heart would take place in Duat (the Underworld), in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice responsible for maintaining order in the universe. The heart was the seat of the life-spirit (ka). Hearts heavier than the feather of Ma'at were rejected and eaten by Ammit, the Devourer of Souls.
That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.
Anubis may be known generally as an Ancient Egyptian god, but what he was a god of specifically is a little more obscure. I.e., what 'trait' of Anubis led the developers to choose that name?
I would have thought of something 'defensive', like a shield; to use a Greek example:
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I was curious about the name:
* https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_of_souls#Ancient_Egyp...
I'm not familiar with the firewall utility, and my initial thought, in response to the question, was "anyone who's heart weighs more than a feather".
That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.
Anubis may be known generally as an Ancient Egyptian god, but what he was a god of specifically is a little more obscure. I.e., what 'trait' of Anubis led the developers to choose that name?
I would have thought of something 'defensive', like a shield; to use a Greek example:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis
The association of weighing (human(!)) souls is not something that would have come to my mind.
Perhaps where you reside, I’m unsure why you would believe it to be universal.
Grades 1-5 is a little hyperbolic, IIRC my "World Religions" class was probably middle/junior-high school.
In any case, it's not the type of lifetime common-knowledge which warrants your scornful response.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Or scholastic book fairs (showing my age)
I mean I know about the heart weighing thing but I'm pretty sure I didn't learn it in school.