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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.

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