Devourer this instance, Ammit is not an agent of evil, but punishment for the guilty dead. In Greek mythology, there are a plethora of hungry monsters and vengeful gods, an example of which being the Minotaur. The Minotaur (which roughly translates to Bull of Minos) was the son of the Cretan queen Pasiphae and a bull. When the Minotaur was no longer satisfied with the nursing of his mother, it was found that he was very fond of eating human flesh. So Minos, the king of Crete and the Minotaur's step-father, ordered the great architect Daedalus to build a great labyrinth
Labyrinth four examples of labyrinths are all complex underground structures, and this appears to have been the standard Classical understanding of the word. It is also possible that the word labyrinth is derived from the Egyptian "loperohunt", meaning palace or temple by the lake. The Egyptian labyrinth near Lake Morris is described by Herodotus and Strabo. By the 4th century BC, Greek vase painters also represented the Labyrinth by the familiar "Greek key" patterns of endlessly running meanders. When the Bronze Age site at Knossos was excavated by explorer Arthur Evans, the complexity of the architecture prompted him to suggest that