Ammut and Amun
	Homepage  Ammut and Amun  Anubis and Apis  Apophis and Aten  Atum and Bastet  Bes and Geb  Hapy and Hathor  Horus and Imhotep  Isis and Khepry  Khnum and Khonsu  Maat and Montu  Mut and Neith  Nekhbet and Nephthys  Nut and Osiris  Ptah and Re  Sekhmet and Sarapis  Selqet and Seth  Shu and Sobek  Taweret and Tefnut  Thoth and Wadjyt  Wepwawet and The Assessor Gods  Sons of Horus and Underworld Deities  Pharaoh		AMMUT AMMUT IS A DREADED UNDERWORLD GODDESS WHO PROMINENTLY FIGURES IN THE 'WEIGHING OF THE HEART' CEREMONY She is ferocious to look at, with a crocodile head, a lion or leopard body and the hind legs of a hippopotamus. Her name means 'Devourer of the Dead'. If a dead person is judged to be guilty by the Assessor Gods, then the person's heart is thrown to Ammut. She will eat it up, thereby destroying any hope of an afterlife for the deceased. Egyptian 'Weighing of the Heart' scenes always show this goddess, who constitutes the ultimate threat to eternal life, but she is of course always left hungry. Amun is often shown in human form with a crown of two tall plumes AMUN AMUN, WHO COMBINES WITH THE SUN-GOD TO BECOME AMUN-RE, IS THE KING OF THE GODS The Egyptians saw all the other major gods as a series of manifestations of Amun. His huge temple at Karnak was continually embellished by pharaohs for over 2,000 years and pharaohs claimed Amun was their father. Amun's name means the 'Hidden One' and his true nature is totally secret. Amun is also the god of military expansion. He holds the scimitar of war out to the pharaoh to conquer foreign territory. During the Middle Eastern campaign of Rameses the Great (reigning from 1270 BC) Amun's intervention allegedly saved the pharaoh from being killed by Hittite troops. At the other end of the social hierarchy, Amun protected poor people in law courts from corrupt judges.