I believe that the animal was a crocodile named Ammat the Devourer.
The weighing of the heart was when someone would go into the after life and there heart would be weighed on the scales of truth if the heart weighed more than the feather of truth the person was not allowed in to the afterlife and there heart was tossed away!! if the heart weighed more than the feather it meant that the person was bad and not worthy enough for the afterlife .True stuff!!!!!!!
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Duat, the court of the dead where souls were judged by a series of gods and goddesses it is called the "hall of two truths" because if you have a heart heavier then a feather, it gets fed to a monster and you don't get a after life. If its lighter than a feather you get a afterlife and all the stuff in your tomb if your a king-queen-Pharaoh.
Nothing, only the heart was left in the body.
The monster is called Ammit. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit
The weighing of the heart was when someone would go into the after life and there heart would be weighed on the scales of truth if the heart weighed more than the feather of truth the person was not allowed in to the afterlife and there heart was tossed away!! if the heart weighed more than the feather it meant that the person was bad and not worthy enough for the afterlife .True stuff!!!!!!!
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There are several different organs in an animal that are considered edible. These organs are called the kidneys, liver, heart, brain, and stomach.
Duat, the court of the dead where souls were judged by a series of gods and goddesses it is called the "hall of two truths" because if you have a heart heavier then a feather, it gets fed to a monster and you don't get a after life. If its lighter than a feather you get a afterlife and all the stuff in your tomb if your a king-queen-Pharaoh.
The heart is not a storage device. IF you're refering to the time between beats, then all 4 chambers sort of "stores" blood to be pumped out at the next beat.
ventricle?
As far as i know there's only one species of animal that does not have a heart and that is a jellyfish.
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since you said life and not heart, none.
In Egyptian mythology, Ammit devours the hearts of evil souls who fail the heart weighing ceremony in the afterlife. Ammit is a part-lion, part-hippopotamus, and part-crocodile creature who is known as the "Devourer of the Dead."
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