`  == Khenti-amentiu ==  The reference to Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson supports the Anubis connection. On page 187, the book lists Anubis' common titles and has an entry for ``Foremost of the westerners``. It then elaborates: ``Because the majority of the Egyptians' cemeteries were constructed on the western bank of the Nile—the symbolic direction of the setting sun and the underworld—the deceased were referred to as 'westerners'. Thus, the epithet khenty-imentiu, 'foremost of the westerners', refers to Anubis as leader of the dead. The title was taken from the earlier canine deity of that name that Anubis superseded at Abydos.``   `