Devourer

And that's how we get a fragment of God called the Devourer that can be locked in a tomb even though he can destroy the world.

Cold Copper Tears Cook, Glen 1988

If not, one was tossed to a hybrid, Cerberus-like creature called The Devourer part-crocodile, part-lion, part-hippo.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Come the moment of truth for a soul after its lengthy journey through the duat, when its heart would be weighed on a set of scales against a feather, all that was required to stop the heart from sinking and being swallowed by a terrifying monster a crocodile-headed compound of a lion and a hippopotamus named the Devourer was the requisite magic.

The Guardian World News Tom Holland 2010

If these tipped the wrong way, you were prey to the "Devourer," a nasty-looking customer with the head of a crocodile, forelegs of a lion and back end of a hippopotamus.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

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There it could be waylaid by scorching fires, poisonous snakes, wild animals and worst of all the Devourer – a demon with the head of a crocodile, the body of a lion and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.

Book of the Dead Comes To Life At British Museum AP 2010

Devourer of Worlds or Usurpers of Suns? by nickmamatas

Devourer of Worlds or Usurpers of Suns? « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009

A heavy heart, weighed down with sin, meant being thrown to the Devourer.

Book of the Dead Comes To Life At British Museum AP 2010

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