Temple of the Anubites

The **temple of the Anubites** was a once glorious temple dedicated to Jaci, the goddess of death on the coast of the Coarse Sea. It was a popular place for travellers to rest and for the chupacabras to bury their dead. The dead of the chupacabras would be brought to the temple to be wrapped and mummified by the order of the Anubites.

The temple of the Anubites was kept and guarded by an religious order of stationary chupacabras who gave up their nomadic live for their goddess Jaci, the titular Anubite order. The Anubites gave up their traditional nomadic live styles to dedicate their lives and time to Jaci. Their temple was a place for other desert nomads to rest for the night, feed themselves and to lay their dead to rest.

## Description

The temple is build out of mud and sand stone with a size of 55 meters long, 27 meters wide, and 15 meters high. There was an entrance o the eastern side which got flanked by two 10 meter high totems. The inside of the temple was covered with planks made out of box tree wood which depicted scenes of chupacabras performing several funerary rites. In the back of the main room is a set of chairs which go down to the tombs underneath the temple. These tombs are filled with remains of the many chupacabra's who were buried here. In front of the entrance was a giant stone bowl filled with fermented blood for visitors to feast on.

## Funerary writes

### Preparation

When a dead chupacabra was brought to the Temple of the Anubites, the Anubites would take the body into their care. First the body was carried unto an altar in the main room where the body was lain for preparation. Then a series of small incisions would be made in the feet, knees, and elbows of the body so the body fat could be drained and smeared over the body. Then the smeared body was wrapped in cloth inscribed with prayers for the diseased. These prayers were for the diseased to read in the afterlife. Then a stone ring was placed in the anus of the body to make sure it was wide enough for the internal organs to fall out.

### Mummification

Once the wrapped body was sufficiently prepared it would be taken to the downstairs to the sacred tombs. Inside of these tomb there where small stone side-rooms. Inside of these rooms the body of the diseased would be placed on a ornamental slab. Underneath these rooms was a second room with small air holes connecting the two inside of which a fire was build to smoke the bodies. Once the corpse was placed the room would be completely filled with smoke and be closed off for three month. This smoke dried out the body of the diseased chupacabra until the fur and and skin shrivelled up and the internal organs became small enough to fall through the anus hole. The wraps around the body would also slowly become smaller and more shrivelled from the smoke until they where tightly wrapped around the contours of the body.

### Burial

After three months the rooms would be reopened and the now black and shrivelled body would be placed in a wooden sarcophagus. The sarcophagus would be dragged upstairs to the alter room and the tribe (If they managed to show up) would be allowed to pay their respects to the family member and give them funerary gifts. Then the sarcophagus would finally be closed of and placed amongst the rows of other sarcophagi in the tombs.

## History

In the year 1000 BD a group of religious chupacabras under guidance of great priestess Santeria journeyed to a sacred . They went to a coast on the coarse sea where their people had come for aeons to embalm and bury their death and began to build. They constructed a great temple dedicated to their goddess and a place for their people to rest. First they made bricks from their spit and the desert sands to create the base and the walls. Then they cut stones from the rock underneath the sand to make the roofs and the stairs. And eventually they cut down the trees to build totems of their gods and instructions for their decedents. And lastly they made a great stone bowl, and filled it with the blood of a hundred goats every day to feed the appetites of every chupacabra that visited. Until it finally finished by the sweat of their brow in the year 950 BD.

The temple stayed active until the chupacabras began to domesticate Death Worms, which allowed them to travel fast distances without the need to stop or resupply. Slowly less and less tribes would pass by, and it became tradition to use the dead to feed the Death Worms instead of mummifying them, which eventually would lead the temple to be forgotten and abandoned at the edge of the desert around the year 450 BD.