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Maat
Maat was a daughter of Re, the sun god. She symbolized the laws of existence - law, truth and the world order. Judges were considered to be the priests of Maat. Without Maat, the process of creation and self-renewal would be meaningless.
She wears an ostrich feather in her head-dress. At the judgment of the soul before Osiris, her feather would be placed on one scale against the heart of the deceased. Should the heart weigh heavier than the feather, it would be thrown to the crocodile-headed god Ammut who would eat it. If the feather weighed more than the heart, the individual soul could join the elysium realms of the underworld ruled by Osiris.
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Osiris
| Nut |
Horus
| Falcon
| Eye |
Burial
| Scarab
| Ankh
| Maat
| Anubis
| Thoth
Hathor
| Cat |
Lotus
| Akhenaten
