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Hermanubis () is a Greco-Egyptian god who conducts the souls of the dead to the greek underworld. He is a syncretism of Hermes from Greek mythology and Anubis from Egyptian mythology. Hermanubis was possibly one of the ancestors of the dog-headed Saint Christopher – a Cynocephaly saint, who was, similarly to Anubis/Hermanubis, a powerful ferryman for travelers.
The divine name Ἑρμανοῦβις ( Hermanoubis) is known from a handful of epigraphic and literary sources, mostly of the Roman period. Plutarch cites the name as a designation of Anubis in his underworldly aspect, while Porphyry refers to Hermanubis as σύνθετος ( sýnthetos) "composite" and μιξέλλην ( mixéllin) "half-Greek".Porphyry, De imaginibus fr. 8, p. 18. 1–2 Bidez
Although it was not common in traditional Greek religion to combine the names of two gods in this manner, the double determination of Hermanubis has some formal parallels in the earlier period. The most obvious is the god Hermaphroditus, attested from the fourth century BC onwards, but his name implies the paradoxical union of two different gods (Hermes and Aphrodite) rather than an assimilation in the manner of Hermanubis.
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