Am-heh

{{short description|Ancient Egyptian deity}}

{{Infobox deity

|type = egyptian

|name = Am-heh

|deity_of =devourer of millions

|hiero = a-m-A2-C11-Z1

}}

{{Ancient Egyptian religion}}

In Egyptian mythology, Am-heh was a minor god from the underworld, whose name means either "devourer of millions" or "eater of eternity".{{cite book|last1=Budge|first1=E. A. Wallis|title=A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead|date=1911|publisher=AMS Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-VtnQAACAAJ&q=A+Hieroglyphic+Vocabulary+to+the+Theban+Recension+of+the+Book+of+the+Dead|isbn=9780404113353}} He was depicted as a man with the head of a hunting dog who lived in a lake of fire.{{Cite web|url=https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/amheh/|title=Am-heh|website=ancientegyptonline.co.uk}} He is sometimes seen as an aspect of Ammit, the personification of divine retribution. Am-heh could only be repelled by the god Atum.{{cite book|last1=Hart|first1=George|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses|date=2005|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0203023624|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTNxvArA5YIC&q=am-heh+god+underworld&pg=PA12}}