That entire thing put Anubis in a bad light, Anubis, also called Anpu, ancient Egyptian god of funerary practices and care of the dead, represented by a jackal or the figure of a man with the head of a jackal. Anubis was said to have invented the mummification process. In world mythology, gods of death are often associated with evil. However, this wasn't the case for Anubis. The Egyptian people viewed him as a good, protective deity.