Anubis

Greek for a funeral-god known to the Egyptians as Anpu. Although most
Egyptologists describe him as jackal-headed, his title, “The Great Dog,” demonstrates
he was canine cephalic. And, like the seeing-eye dog, Anubis loyally
guided the recently deceased through the darkness of death. He was a spirit-guide,
who comforted the ba, or soul, leading it to the Otherworld. Prayed to as “The
Westerner,” Anubis was said to have “written annals from before the flood”
which destroyed his island-home in the Distant West, from whence he arrived
to reestablish his worship in Egypt. He was also known as the “Great Five,” the
sacred numeral of Atlantis, according to Plato. Hence, the funeral rites associated
with his divinity became Egyptian mortuary practices after their importation
from the sunken civilization.
(See Plato)