Hello, Marvel fans. In my last article, you must have read about the Egyptian god “Khonshu”. It was never a secret that Moon Knight would focus quite heavily on Egyptian mythology. However, episode 3 of Moon Knight indicated that there are more Egyptian gods involved in the series, especially when you believe that almost all of them have avatars on Earth. As such, we are here to look at the next Egyptian god “Ammit” that has been featured in Moon Knight so far.
Ammit is the second Egyptian god introduced in the Moon Knight series, as she was mentioned as early as the first episode. In episode 1, Arthur Harrow was introduced as the avatar of Ammit. He used Ammit’s powers to form an entire devotee that worshipped the goddess.
Ammit was perceived as the representation of balance and divine order (similar to Khonshu) and thus was often represented sitting beside the scales of Ma’at (which translates to ‘truth’) in the Underworld. However, unlike Khonshu, Ammit had negative purposes, mainly. While Ammit takes the form of the sphinx named Ammut in the Marvel comics, Ammit in Egyptian mythology is a goddess/beast that’s associated with death. Her responsibility is to eat the hearts of people who were judged to be impure at the time of their deaths so that they will never be given a chance to live again. It could be possible that her goals in Moon Knight are in line with the same kind of mentality.
See you in the next article with a new character from Egyptian mythology in the Moon Knight series.
