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Matters of Life and Death

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Rich Pets

Leona Helmsley cut her grandkids from her will but left her dog millions

“Trouble”, Leona’s snowy white toy Maltese terrier will live out the rest of her years in style. In death, she will be reunited with her owner in the Helmsley Mausoleum.

New York Skyline on Helmsley Crypt
New York Skyline on Helmsley Crypt
Helmsley Mausoleum, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Helmsley Mausoleum, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Egyptians often buried cats with their owners. And Florida recently passed legislation allowing pets to be buried with their owners.

For the royally pampered pooch, our latest pet urn in the Egyptian Urn Collection.

This urn is hand painted ceramic, vivid colors and features the wings of Isis. This urn will accommodate pets weighing up to 50 pounds.

Leona Image: Splash News

Anubis Egyptian Pet Urn

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Our Anubis pet urn is back in stock after a brief absence. This funeral urn is a replica of a canopic jar and holds 90 cubic inches. Too bad these styles are not available in a size to handle adult remains, we get several requests for the larger capacity.

Egyptian urns for ashes

Dog lovers tend to favor this cremation urn style.

anubis egyptian urn

Early in Egyptian history, Anubis was a god of the dead. Anubis had three important functions. He supervised the embalming of bodies. He received the mummy into the tomb and performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony and then conducted the soul in the Field of Celestial Offerings. Most importantly though, Anubis monitored the Scales of Truth to protect the dead from deception and eternal death.

The god of embalming is probably associated with the jackal due to the habits of jackals to lurk about tombs and graves. One of the reasons the early Egyptians sought to make their tombs more elaborate was to keep the bodies safe from the jackals lingering about the graves. It is only natural therefore that a god of mummification would be connected with them. By worshiping Anubis, the Egyptians hoped to invoke him to protect their deceased from jackals, and the natural decay that unprotected bodies endure.

Egyptian god Bastet is also included in our Egypt urn collection.

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