Wepwawet/ Upuaut/ Wep-wawet was a deity of war whose centre of the cult was Asyut in Upper Egypt. Translated, his name means opener of the ways and he is depicted as a man with the head of a wolf. His task was to clear the routes for the army so that they could proceed forward easily, which caused his name to be the opener of the ways. Later, he was called Ra and has gone up from the horizon, perhaps as the opener of the sky. In the later Egyptian funerary context, Wepwawet assists at the Opening of the mouth ceremony and guides the deceased into the netherworld. The difference between Wepwawet and Anubis is that Wepwawet has a grey or white head.
The Egyptians started believing in Wepwawet during the time of the Old Kingdom (2686 BC-2181 BC) but after some time, he became less and less popular and his tasks changed from being the opener of the ways to the opener of the mouth during funerals who ensured that the person would have the use of all his faculties in the afterlife. More recently, the name Wepwawet was given to a robot the investigates the “air shafts” in the Great Pyramid.
There are many differences between the Christian religion and the ancient Egypt religion but there were also many differences that made it easier for the Egyptian people to accept Christianity when it was brought to them in the first century A.D. Both for example believe that children are a blessing of God and that death is a transitional stage leading from the earth to another world where the afterlife lasts forever. The biggest difference between Christianity and the ancient Egyptian religion is that Christians believe in monotheism whereas the Egyptians were polytheistic. Another difference is that Ancient Egyptians spent their entire life and most of their wealth to prepare for the afterlife. They constructed elaborate tombs and gathered all their worldly possessions to be buried with them. They believed that they could literally take it with them into the next world, but Christians believe their reward will be in heaven.
In conclusion, it is obvious to see that the religion practised by ancient Egyptians and modern Christianity share some basic beliefs and practices but that there are also many big differences between them.