Ammit, the devourer of unjust souls in Egyptian mythology
Ammit, the Egyptian creature with a crocodile's head, a lion's chest, and a hippopotamus's hindquarters: her devouring of the impure heart and the second death.
Egyptian mythology
Creatures — Egyptian mythology
Egypt draws no clean line between god and animal: Apis is a living bull selected at Memphis by strict markings, the bennu a solar heron the Greeks would rename the phoenix, Ammit a composite devourer waiting on the verdict of the weighing of the heart. Each entry states the being's exact status — incarnation, hybrid, or force of chaos like Apophis — and the funerary sources that describe it.
Apis, the living bull of Memphis and herald of Ptah
Apis, the sacred bull of Memphis: recognised by his markings, living herald of Ptah, mummified in the Serapeum of Saqqara and reborn as Osiris-Apis, ancestor of Serapis.
Apophis, the serpent of chaos and enemy of Ra in Egyptian myth
Apophis (Apep), the giant serpent of chaos in Egyptian mythology: sworn enemy of Ra whom he attacks each night in the Duat, and the rites of annihilation used to defeat him.
Bennu, the solar bird behind the phoenix
The Bennu, sacred heron of Heliopolis: a self-created bird perched on the benben stone, ba of Ra and Osiris, and the Egyptian original behind the Greek phoenix.