Up-uat (English spelling)

…In the Book of the Dead, he is depicted as weighing the heart of the deceased in the court of Osiris, and receiving the mummy at the entrance to the tomb during the funeral. In chapter 151, he is depicted standing beside the bier on which the mummy was lying, extending his hand in a protective gesture, and saying, "I have come to protect Osiris." In addition to being the personification of the summer solstice, paired with the golden wolf god Up-uat, who pioneered the way, he was also known as the patron deity of medicine, and the center of his worship was Letopolis, and the Temple of Anubis in Letopolis, along with the Temple of Atum-Ra in Heliopolis and the Temple of Neith in Sais, was the center of medical care in Lower Egypt. [Nakayama Shinichi]. …

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…《死者の書》ではオシリスの法廷で死者の心臓を計量し，葬儀に際して墓の入口で死者のミイラを受け取る姿が描かれ，151章ではミイラの横たわる棺架のわきに立ち，保護するしぐさで手を差しのべ，〈我はオシリスを保護せんために来たれり〉と言ったさまが描かれている。道の開拓者たる金狼神ウプウアットUp‐uatと対をなし夏至の擬人化であるほか，医学の守護神としても知られ，信仰の中心地はレトポリスLetopolisで，ヘリオポリスのアトゥム･ラー神殿，サイスのネイト神殿と共にレトポリスのアヌビス神殿は下エジプトにおける医療の中心地であった。【中山 伸一】。…

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