Ammit
Sign in to saveAmmit (; , "Devourer of the Dead"; also rendered Ammut or Ahemait) was an ancient Egyptian goddess with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. In ancient Egyptian religion, Ammit played an important role during the funerary ritual, the Judgment of the Dead.
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- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Ammit
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- Ammit.svg
- Deity.hiero
- Egyptian: ꜥm-mwt (devourer of the dead) a-m-F10-m-t*Z2ss:A14
- Deity.gender
- Female
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Ammit (; , "Devourer of the Dead"; also rendered Ammut or Ahemait) was an ancient Egyptian goddess with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. In ancient Egyptian religion, Ammit played an important role during the funerary ritual, the Judgment of the Dead.
== Nomenclature == Ammit (; ) means "devourer of the dead" ("devoureress of the dead") or "swallower of the dead", where is the verb "to swallow", and signifies "the dead", more specifically the dead who had been adjudged not to belong to the ("blessed dead") who abided by the code of truth (Ma'at).