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آموت
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.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Ammit
- Deity.image
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ancient Egyptian deity
- Part of
- Egyptian mythology
- Gender
- female
- Image
- Ammit.svg
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- Ammit
- worshipped by
- Egyptian mythology
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