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The last assignment of the day was for each of the students – and the teachers too - to channel 3
energies and each of them to pass it on to the other 6. In that way we channelled 21 attunements
that afternoon. The 21 attunements were, alphabetically:
I can pass 3 of them along in the Lightworker™ Egyptian Energy Series as they are made by me
and my wife Charmaine:
Dogs and jackals often loitered at the edges of the desert, especially near the cemeteries where
the dead were buried; in fact, it is thought that the Egyptians began the practice of making
elaborate graves and tombs in order to protect the dead from desecration by jackals. In
consequence, Anubis was usually thought of as a jackal, an association reinforced by certain
variations of his hieroglyph, which can be translated as young dog. Thus, ancient Egyptian texts
say that Anubis, like a jackal, silently walked through the shadows of life and death and lurked
in dark places, watchful by day as well as by night.
As ruler over the dead, he was given titles such as He who is set
upon his mountain, in reference to his sitting atop desert cliffs to
guard multiple necropolis, and Chontamenti (also spelt
Khentimentiu, and Khentamenti), meaning Lord of the
Westerners, in reference to Egyptian belief that the entrance to
the underworld was towards the west, since that was the
direction in which the sun set. As ruler, he was also said to have
been victorious over the dark forces (described as nine bows),
which also, naturally, lurk in the underworld, gaining him the
title Jackal ruler of the bows.
As king of the underworld, he was also considered to be the one who weighed the heart of the
dead against the feather of Maàt (the concept of truth), gaining him the title He who counts the
hearts. One of the reasons that the ancient Egyptians took such care to preserve their dead with
sweet-smelling herbs was that it became believed Anubis would check each person with his keen
canine nose. Only if they smelled pure would he allow them to enter the Kingdom of the Dead.
Following the merging of the Ennead and Ogdoad belief systems, as a result of the identification
of Atum with Ra, and their compatibility, Anubis became considered a lesser god in the
underworld, giving way to the more popular Osiris. Indeed, when the Legend of Osiris and Isis
emerged, it was said that when Osiris had died, Anubis stood down from his position out of
respect for Osiris.
As one of the most important funerary rites in Egypt involved the process of embalming, so it
was that Anubis became the god of embalming, in the process gaining titles such as He who
belongs to the mummy wrappings, and He who is before the divine [embalming] booth. High
priests often wore the Anubis mask to perform the ceremonial deeds of embalming. It also
became said, frequently in the Book of the dead, that it had been Anubis who embalmed the
dead body of Osiris, with the assistance of the other main funerary deities involved - Nepthys,
and Isis. Having become god of embalming, Anubis became strongly associated with the
(currently) mysterious and ancient imiut fetish, present during funerary rites, and Bast, who by
this time was goddess of ointment, initially became thought of as his mother.
However, as lesser of the two gods of the underworld, he gradually became considered the son of
Osiris, but Osiris' wife, Isis, was not considered his mother, since she too inappropriately was
associated with life. Instead, his mother became considered to be Nepthys, who had become
strongly associated with funerary practice, indeed had in some ways become the personification
of mourning, and was said to supply bandages to the deceased. Subsequently, this apparent
infidelity of Osiris was explained in myth, in which it was said that a sexually frustrated Nepthys
had disguised herself as Isis in order to appeal to her husband, Set, but he did not notice her as
he was gay and infertile, whereas Isis' husband Osiris did, mistaking her for his wife, which
resulted in Anubis' birth. Some more homophobic versions of the myth depict Set as the father.