Egyptian Goddess Maat Canvas Print

Egyptian Goddess Maat bas-relief, Ancient Egypt.

Detail of an ancient Egyptian bas-relief depicting winged Maat in double symmetry.

Maat was the goddess who personified the concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat also regulated the stars, seasons and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet meaning injustice, chaos, violence or evil. Maat was depicted with an ostrich feather on her head and sometimes wings on each arm.

After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary function in ancient Egyptian religion dealt with the Weighing of the Heart that took place in the Duat, when Anubis would use her feather as measure in his weighing scales to determine whether the souls of the departed would reach paradise.

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