Introduction
Wepwawet is a wolf-headed god whose name means "opener of the ways," associated with war and with clearing a path — both literally, for royal and funerary processions, and symbolically, for the deceased's passage into the afterlife.
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Opener of the Ways
Wepwawet's standard was carried at the front of royal and funerary processions, and he was closely linked with Anubis in funerary contexts, sometimes treated as a related or even overlapping figure, though maintained as a distinct god with his own cult center at Asyut in Upper Egypt.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.