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Hybrid goddess: head of crocodile, front half of lion and rear half of hippopotamus. This goddess is named " Devouring of the Dead" and is located on the foot of the scales waiting the result of the bore of the heart. According to the Egyptian thought, this organ was in charge of the acts in the earth, that had to be weighed in scales to verify if the individual had been just in life and deserving of eternal life. In the counterweight of the above mentioned scales was placed the feather of Maat (the justice, the cosmic order) or the proper goddess; both, heart and feather, they had to be equal of light, so that the dead could be considered " Just of Voice ", to be called a pure soul. Otherwise, Ammyt would proceed to devour him so that the dead was perishing definitively and was losing his condition of immortal.
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