Where did They Put the Heart and Brain?!?!?



Ammut





Weighing of the Heart Cermony



You probably figured out something is wrong here. Why wasn't the brain put in a canopic jar, it is an important part of the body, right? Wrong!! Well, at least for the ancient Egyptians the brain isn't important.  See, when you put a hook in your head and start trying to fish out the brain, the brain becomes a whole bunch nasty mush and what would you do with that! Throw it away of course!  And that's why the Egyptians discarded the brain because they thought it was just a place where our body stores a whole bunch of snot.  The heart, on the other hand, was part of an important ceremony.  This ceremony was called the weighing of the heart ceremony.  This is when the Egyptians weighed the heart against a feather and if the heart weighed more than the feather (due to bad deeds) a monster, called Ammut, ate the whole heart! This was then recorded by Thoth, the god of writing.  And I'm guessing that Ammut had many, many hearts to eat. I mean how could a feather weigh more than a heart?!?! It just doesn't make any sense to me.