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>I was curious about the name:

That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

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.

That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

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.

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.

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