#ammut the devourer

[ava-does-dumbassery]

Everybody please look at these two drawings of Anubis and Ammut and of Thoth painting a feather from The Papyrus of Ani.

[comicwaren]

From Moon Knight: City of the Dead #003, “Dead Reckoning”

Art by Sean Damien Hill, Jay Leisten and Rachelle Rosenberg

Written by David Pepose

[briefbestiary]

The Devourer of the Dead. She who sits idly near the scales, waiting until truth finds a heavy heart for her maw.

[rabid-catboy]

I love her 💛

[sygil-loux]

Sygil Loux aka: 𝔏𝔬𝔲𝔵 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞🔞

Inktober 16:21 - R+S Heart "Decided to do something i been meaning to draw for a while. Not sure if it came out how i wanted but i can go back to it digitally after October." (Shayn fused June 2022)

Inktober 9:21 - Baphomet "Noticed it was gonna be my 666th post on Instagram so decided Baphomet would be the most appropriate for today's drawing. xD"

Inktober 21:21 - Happy Ammit "A playful Ammit for the last day of Inktober. I didn't do 21 on purpose but here we are."

Inktober 13:21 - Willow "Off topic Willow.🍄" (fused Jan 2023)

[lonepower]

i haven't listened to the new chapter but comments indicate Harlan has done the One Thing that could shake my trust in him. i am WATCHING you

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Moon Knight: City of the Dead #4 by David Pepose and Marcelo Ferreira. Variant covers by (1) Aka and (2) David Marquez. Out in October.

"Nothing is more feared in the City of the Dead than the ancient crocodile goddess known as AMMUT THE DEVOURER. Unfortunately for Marc Spector, he is currently being digested inside Ammut’s belly, memory by memory. Can Moon Knight survive the weight of his own horrific past, or will the JACKAL KNIGHT rule triumphant across the realms of both the living and the dead? All hope may be lost… That is unless the SCARLET SCARAB has anything to say about it!"

[talonabraxas]

“Weighing Of The Heart” by Jim Figora The Judgement Hall of Osiris in the Netherworld:-to the right, Osiris enthroned, followed by Arikhankharer making adorations. In front of Osiris, an offering table.-to the left, from left to right,the Goddess Maat leading Arikhankharer to the Judgement Hall,another image of Arikhankharer next to the Balance of Judgement,the Balance of Judgement (on the top of the Balance beam is represented Thoth in His form of sacred baboon), the heart of the deceased is placed on the right scale, next to Anubis, and the image of Maat (the Goddess of Righteousness and Truth) is on the left scale, next to Horus,Thoth recording the result of the weighing of the deceased's heart,and the Goddess Ammut, the “Great Devourer of the Netherworld”, She Who devours the hearts of the unrighteous-ones, represented as a composite animal with the body of a lion, wearing two feathers and holding two blades-on the top, a row of Gods, the Judges of the Dead, each wearing the feather and holding a blade-in the lower register, a row of priests holding palm-branches-on the top frieze, images of Anubis in His form of sacred jackal, crouching

[marshmallowfairbanks]

The ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife system, where the body and soul were separated and judged in the Hall of the Two Truths by the god Osiris, the lord of the underworld.

This judgment was based on the heart of the deceased, which was weighed against the feather of Maat, the goddess of justice and balance. If the heart was pure, the deceased would achieve eternal peace in the afterlife, but if it was heavy with wrongdoing, the heart would be devoured by the monster Ammut, resulting in eternal death.

Art: Mighty Oak

[void-writing]

Thinking about Mummies Alive again and that if the show was more true to ancient Egyptian mythology then Scarab would have run afoul pretty much the entire pantheon by killing Rapses.

Like...so many of the gods were devoted to protecting the Pharaoh, and cosmic balance was also a big thing in their cosmology. So I feel that Scarab’s whole “oh I’m going to murder the son of the man with the largest and most blatant amount of divine favor--who would have inherited that same favor--and use his soul to cheat death” scheme would have spat in the face of what the pantheon stood for.

Also, for a guy who’s utterly terrified of dying, I find it hilarious that he regularly allowed Ammut, the Devourer of Evil Souls, to just chill in his house on the regular. Honestly, any underworld deity would probably want a piece of Scarab, especially any that were particularly concerned with tombs and the desecration of the dead.

You know that Anubis once flayed Set and wore his skin as punishment for trying to desecrate Osiris’s body further, right? And Bes was a guardian of children? Scarab’s ass would have been grass.

[dailymythicalknowledge]

Jackson's Daily Bestiary #9: Ammit

Image credit: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/w6Yr4Y

Region of Origin: Egypt

Ammit, also known as Ammut, or Ahemait, was a monstrous creature from egyptian mythology. Her body was an amalgamation of the three largest man-eating animals in Egypt; she had the head of a crocodile, the body of a lion and the hind legs of a hippo.

Ammit lived in the Egyptian underworld of Duat and sat at the feet of the scribe Thoth during the Judgement of the Dead. Anubis would place a heart and the Feather of Truth (which symbolized the goddess Maat) on a weight. If the feather was heavier than the heart, the soul would be deemed pure and allowed to proceed. However, if the heart was heavier than the feather, then the person was deemed to be wicked and unfit to advancing any further.

If this was the case, Ammit would devour the soul, preventing them from advancing any further into the underworld. Because of this, she was also known as the Devourer of the Dead. While some classify her as a goddess, her role is more akin to a demon or monster representative of execution rather than an actual goddess.

Sources:

-https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Ammit/309834#:~:text=In%20ancient%20Egyptian%20religion%20and,the%20hindquarters%20of%20a%20hippopotamus.

-https://study.com/academy/lesson/ammit-mythology-hieroglyphics-facts.html#:~:text=While%20Ammit%20is%20sometimes%20classified,patron%20of%20death%20and%20execution.

-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit

[scienceninjaturtle]

MOON KNIGHT: CITY OF THE DEAD #4 (OF 5)

DAVID PEPOSE (W) • MARCELO FERREIRA (A) • Cover by ROD REIS

VARIANT COVER BY DAVID MARQUEZ • VARIANT COVER BY AKA

Nothing is more feared in the City of the Dead than the ancient crocodile goddess known as AMMUT THE DEVOURER. Unfortunately for Marc Spector, he is currently being digested inside Ammut's belly, memory by memory. Can Moon Knight survive the weight of his own horrific past, or will the JACKAL KNIGHT rule triumphant across the realms of both the living and the dead? All hope may be lost… That is unless the SCARLET SCARAB has anything to say about it!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

[sasa-chan]

Ammit, Ammut, Ahemait

Devourer of the Dead.

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 Egypt.

Ammit plays an important role during the funerary ritual, the Judgement of the Dead.

[iceicewifey]

i still think it would've been neat if araki kept up the egyptian gods thing and named cream after ammut, devourer of the dead... to be fair, i know if i was him i wouldn't be able to resist the 'ice cream' pun either jgnjfg

[feybeasts]

Me, pointing at Ammut as my heart is devoured for being too weighted down with sin:

"pupy...."

[starlitmemoriam]

@kitxkatrp

He just didn't get it. He snuck into the palace much like a shadow, crept to the pharaoh's chambers and woke him up in the dead of night to take him hostage. And he... just went with it. Not a word, not a complaint, nothing. It was so... unexpected. He just... took it. Hell, he'd swear up and down that he was helping him with this brazen crime. Everyone expected him to do something like bursting into the catacombs and robbing anything not nailed down, not steal the pharaoh himself from his own palace in the silence of the night. The self-proclaimed King of Thieves had suspiciously found not much in his way when he made his escape. It was... odd. His comrades stared in stunned silence when he returned, dawn's light trailing behind him with the greatest prize of all slung over the back of his horse. They cheered, they drew their weapons to kill him then and there, but the mighty King of Thieves hadn't let them. It could be a trap, after all. He was certain it was.

But in the week he's been there, he's been so... cooperative? Took off his jewelry and gave it to him to sell for food. Looked at his surroundings in such wonder when they left in the first place. He couldn't help but constantly eye him with suspicion every time he passed him by, every time he tried to get a confession out of him that there was something lying in wait. He spoke to his ka about it in private, curled up in its gentle embrace with his arms around the serpent that meant so much to him. Even if 'private' was as far away as he could get in the same cave. But tonight? This was the night he was going to get his straight answer. He had given all the food he could collect to his beloved ka; he'll eat the scraps when he's finished. Even if it looked at him with such concern and nudged the food back his way every time he offered it. But, to make its master happy, it always obliged in the end.

"You." The Thief King shook the other rather harshly; just in case he was asleep. Couldn't tell in this light and it was dark as it was. Couldn't risk lighting something and giving away their position with such a high-profile hostage. "I don't know who you think you're fooling, but I've had it with your games." He leaned over the pharaoh, to put up as intimidating a presence as possible. "I'm not going to fall for whatever silly little trap you set for me. You're going to pay for what you did to my people, pharaoh. Their blood is on your hands, but I'll let you see the sun rise one last time before Ammut devours your wretched soul if you answer one little thing for me."