Aliases: Ammut, Ammet, Anam, Amemet, Ahemait

Anubis and Ammit in the Egyptian underworld.

Ammit, from Egyptian mythology, is described as having a head of a crocodile, the front arms and front half of the body of a lion, and the bottom and legs of a hippo. The three animals that were feared most by Egyptians. She represented all of the wrong choices and sin one committed in life, so instead of being worshiped, she was feared. She stayed in the underworld, known as Duat. The Egyptians believed that when you die you go to the underworld, there you will encounter Anubis who will take your heart and weigh it on a scale, on the other scale is a feather from Ma’at’s headdress. If the person’s heart was heavy with sin and wrongdoings then it was thrown down the Hall of Ma’at where it would be devoured. If your heart was eaten you wouldn’t be allowed to enter Aaru, which Egyptians believed was the heavenly paradise.