The Underworld Court

11 figures A family: figures with traits in common

Ammit at the scales, Anubis with the feather, the Ankou with the cart. Death in these traditions is not an event but a bureaucracy, and this family staffs it, bound to the threshold and its judgment, to the weighing and gatekeeping and ferrying that make an afterlife an institution.

soul judges and threshold gatekeepers of death (ammit, anubis, ankou, makara, mušḫuššu)

What binds them

• Soul judgment · 7 of them
• Spiritual perception · 3 of them
• Glowing red eyes · 2 of them
• Underworld gatekeeper · 2 of them
• Devours hearts of the unworthy dead · 1 of them
• Eternal vigilant watcher · 1 of them
• Portent of disaster · 1 of them
• Guardianship · 1 of them

Drawn from 5 groups of traditions: European 4 · African 3 · Celtic 2 · Middle eastern 1 · Slavic 1

Members

• Ammit
• Ankou
• Anubis
• Argus Panoptes
• Babi
• Christ
• Mallt-y-Nos
• Michael
• Nuckelavee
• Redcap
• Surma

Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.