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I guess you meant to ask "What does the word duatmean?".
This is one modern way of writing an ancient Egyptian word that is transliterated as dwAt by Egyptologists. It is written with the "star" hieroglyph, followed by an eagle, a loaf and a determinative for "house" or "place".
The word means "netherworld" or "afterlife", sometimes written as "beyond".
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What did the Anubis protect?
Anubis was protector and guide of the dead in the Duat (underworld).
What was a duat?
The Duat was the region of the Sky, including the constellation Orion, where the Egyptians said the souls of the dead would go, where the God Osiris ruled the afterlife. If you lay an aerial photo of the pyramids of Giza over a photo of the sky, the 3 stars of Orion's belt will correspond - in placement and brightness/size - to the placements and sizes of the pyramids, and the Nile River will match the Milky Way. The Duat was said to be the home of many beings. Many pharaohs were said to have come from there in the first place.
What is an Anubis and what does he do?
Anubis is the Egyptian god of mummification and the protector and guide of the dead through the Duat (underworld).
What did the Egyptians believe the god Anubis do?
Anubis was the ancient Egyptian god of embalming, as well as tester, guide and protector of the dead in the Duat (underworld). He weighed the heart of the dead against the feather of Ma'at. In the Old Kingdom he was also ruler of the Duat/Aaru (heaven).
What is Anubis role?
The ancinet Egyptian god Anubis was a god of embalming and the protector, guide and tester of the dead in the Duat (underworld).
