Amut
Amut is an ancient Egyptian deity that helps Anubis in the judging of the afterlife. When the dead person has completed the Duat maze of deadly monsters, it still has one more monster to meet. The dead person goes into the hall of two truths. Then the person's heart is taken out and placed on the scale with the feather of truth that belongs to the goddess Maat.
If the heart is lighter than the feather, the dead person can go to the afterlife luxary. But if the heart is heavier, than the judging gods bring in Amut.
Amut is part lion, part hippo and part crocodile. Amut is known as the devourer. If the person's heart is heavier than the feather, then Amut eats the heart and the dead person is gone forever. Osiris, god of the dead, does not like bad people in the afterlife.
Although Amut is seen as a devouring entity, its order is neutral and strictly serves at the whim of the other deities to take souls that have sinned against God and put them into oblivion.
It is one of the two major monsters that the dead will meet in the afterlife. The other is Duat.
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