Ammut is a creature that is part crocodile, lion or leopard, and hippopotamus. She is known as the Devourer of the Dead because she devours the souls and hearts of those who are found unworthy on Ma’at’s scales of justice.
Ammut was a creature, sometimes called a goddess, that sat at the right hand of Osiris in front of Ma’at’s scales of justice. Anubis, the god of death, would escort souls to the scales for their judgment. Ma’at would place the deceased’s heart on a scale, and balance it with an ostrich feather. If the heart was too heavy, it was too full of impurities to move on into Duat, the Egyptian underworld. Ammut would eat the heart, and the soul of the deceased was doomed to wander restlessly throughout eternity, never finding peace or rest.
Ammut was a frightful creature, with the head of a crocodile, the forequarters of a lion or a leopard, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus. She was sometimes called the Protector of Osiris, god of the underworld, because she was so frightening and she was rarely ever not by his side.
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Ma’at’s Scales of Justice
Ammut je stvorenje iz staroegipatske mitologije poznato kao "Proždrljivica mrtvih." Igrala je ulogu u zagrobnom životu, konzumirajući srca onih koji nisu prošli test.
Ammut često je prikazana kao hibridno stvorenje s glavom krokodila, tijelom lava i stražnjim dijelom hijopotama, kombinirajući osobine najstrašnijih stvorenja Egipta.
Ammut je služila kao čuvarica u Velikoj dvorani Ma’at, gdje je jela srca ljudi koji su pali na testu istine, sprječavajući ih da uđu u zagrobni život. To ju je učinilo simbolom božje pravde i kazne.
Ammut je bila plašena jer je predstavljala konačnu sudbinu duša koje nisu bile dostojne. Pojedena od Ammuta značila je potpuno uništenje, bez nade za vječni zagrobni život.
Ammut je jedinstvena jer se ne štuje kao ostali bogovi, već služi kao nadnaravni izvršitelj moralnog reda, kažnjavajući zlotvore umjesto da daruje blagoslove.