In Ancient Egypt Neftida was considered as god of death. Many gods participated in a ritual of burial of a body, maintenance of soul of the person to the underground kingdom — Duat and its further stay there. Osiris was considered as god of the kingdom of the dead.
Goddess of death
God of death in Ancient Egypt was Neftida. She personified process of dying of the person, accompanied it the last minutes of life. Neftida was always represented near Isida as the assistant and contrast. Her name in Ancient Egyptian language sounds as Nebetkhet that "madam of monastery" means. Neftida personified infertility, lameness. According to the remained texts, Neftida accompanied god R at night, that is traveled with him around a next world.
Gods connected with death cult
Functions of one god often passed to other god with the advent of the last in the culture of the population. It is known that in Memphis as the tsar of the underground kingdom was honored initially Anubis. But with arrival of a cult of Osiris lost a part of the Anubis functions. Because of it it is impossible to tell precisely what god in Ancient Egypt was god of death. In at one time and in the different cities, different gods personified the same.
In Memphis god of upokoyenny souls Sokar who served as the guard protecting an entrance to the underground kingdom was honored. It was presented in the form of a falcon. There was a place of honoring of other Egyptian god – Anubis. He was considered as god of the dead, the patron of necropolises, making embalming, one of judges of the kingdom of the dead. As for other capital of Ancient Egypt, in Thebes the goddess Mertseger as the patroness of a necropolis, the died people and live which owing to the profession were forced to live in "the city of the dead" was honored. Hentimentiu is god of the died people represented in shape of a black dog. Hentimentiu is translated from Ancient Egyptian language as "The first of Western". The West in Ancient Egypt was associated with a next world. Abydos was the place of honoring of Hentimentiu. The name of this god one of names of Osiris became later. In Abydos there was one more god — Upuaut who was connected with belief in an afterlife, belonged to Osiris's suite. Osiris is the tsar of the underground world, god of revival and the nature. It one of the few gods who are directly connected with death. Most of other gods had only a part of the duties in the kingdom beyond the grave. For example, god Tot played a role of the judge and secretary, writing down the words of human souls and Osiris's sentence. Though That was honored and as god of wisdom, eloquence, science. God Sepa was closely connected with a cult of the dead, and it sometimes connected Osiris to image. Sepa was represented in shape of a poisonous myriapod. Maat participated in trial of a human soul in a next world. Its feather was put on one scale of justice, heart of the person on other bowl. If heart outweighed a bowl, then soul was considered as guilty and Maat devoured it.