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 bitje iz staroegipčanske mitologije, znano kot "Požiralec mrtvih." Vlogo je imela v posmrtnem življenju, saj je jedla srca tistih, ki so bili ocenjeni kot nevredni med tehtanjem srca.
Ammut je pogosto prikazan kot hibridno bitje z glavo krokodila, telesom leva in zadnjim delom hijene, združujejo pa lastnosti najstrašnejših bitij Egipta.
Ammut je služila kot čuvaj v dvorani Ma’at, kjer je jedla srca ljudi, ki so padli na preizkusi resnice, s čimer jim je preprečila vstop v posmrtno življenje. To jo je naredilo simbol božanskega pravice in kazni.
Ammut je bila strah, ker je predstavljala končno usodo duš, ki so bile označene za nevredne. Podojena z Ammut je pomenila popolno uničenje, brez upanja na večno posmrtno življenje.
Ammut je edinstvena, ker ni čaščena kot drugi bogovi, ampak služi kot nadnaravni izvrševalec moralnega reda, kaznovala je prestopnike namesto da bi jim podeljevala blagoslove.