Ammit
Mythology: Ancient Egyptian
A female demon with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. As a funerary deity, she was also known by her titles "Devourer of the Dead", "Eater of Hearts", and "Great of Death".
lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld.
It is said that in the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighs the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was described as an ostrich feather. They say if the heart was judged not pure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgement was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once she swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time". She is sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some of the traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.
Ammit was never worshipped; instead she embodied all that the Egyptians feared, threatening to bind them to eternal restlessness if they did not follow the principle of Ma'at.
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