Weekly Handout 4

PSA Weekly Handout 4

October 6, 2010

Anubis

Pantheon:  Egyptian

Domain: Mummification, embalming, “opening of the mouth ceremony”

Similar gods: Osiris

Symbols: ankh, tools of mummification, collar or ceremonial tie, jackal or some other desert canine.

Depiction: Often depicted in a very active or alert stance, versus the normally passive stances of authority in Egyptian art. Can usually be seen either in the process of mummification or near Osiris or some other likeness of that god (the lunar disc).   Anubis is either depicted in anthropomorphic form (half-animal, half-human) or full-animal form.

Herbs for Amulets

To see ghosts: Carry lavender and inhale its scent.

To allay fear: Carry a mixture of nettle and yarrow.

To prevent weariness while walking: Put mugwort in the shoe.

To enter the underworld: Carry an apple, or the branch of an apple tree that bears buds, flowers, and fully ripened fruit.

To see faeries: Gather wild thyme and carry it with you, or put it on the eyelids (with your eyes closed) and sleep on a faerie hill.

Hematite

-used to repel/absorb negative energy

-stimulates concentration and focus

-enhances courage, strength, vitality, endurance

-to use, wear a hematite ring and once it has broken, toss the pieces into running water or bury it, or place crystals to be cleansed into a bowl of tumbled hematite