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Ma'at

deity sky Book of the Dead single tradition · 18

Ma'at is the goddess of truth. The feather of Ma'at symbolized the balance and truthfulness needed during one's lifetime. The heart of the deceased is weighed against her feather.

↻ synthesized from 18 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Ma'at appears in funerary texts from the Old Kingdom onward.

Relationships

co occurs with
Seshat, Ra-Horakhty, Mestjet, Weret-hekau, Sothis, Seshat, Isfet, Renenutet, Anuket, Serket, Imentet, Wosret, ꜥmmt, Nefertem, Amun Re, Aaru, Ammit, Osiris, Anubis, Mehet-Weret, Amun, Astarte, Satet, Isis, Meretseger, Khnum, Set, Horus, Khepri, Atum, Sia, Menhit, Bastet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Hathor, Wadjet, Mut, Nekhbet, Neith, Bat, Pakhet, Heqet, Nut, Nephthys, Amunet, Satis, Anput, Hesat, Assessors of Maat, Ptah, Khonshu, Eye of Horus, Hapi, Duamutef, Imset, Qebehsenuef
consort of
Thoth, Thoth
allied with
Thoth, Ra
syncretized with
Aten, Hathor within the Benenet
enemy of
Isfet, Apep
manifests as
feather
served by
Nehebkau, Cavern deities
child of
Ra
sibling of
Shu

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Mentioned by

and 31 more

Sources

wikipedia (18)
  1. Cavern deities of the underworld
  2. Ammit
  3. Atenism
  4. Eye of Ra
  5. Aten
  6. Thoth
  7. Ancient Egyptian deities
  8. Maat
  9. Mut
  10. Nehebkau
  11. Sebeg
  12. Assessors of Maat
  13. Temple of Ptah (Karnak)
  14. Carpentras Stele
  15. Eye of Horus
  16. Funeral of a Mummy on the Nile
  17. Aaru
  18. Atef

Source passages

“The heart of the deceased was weighed against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth. The feather of Ma'at symbolized the balance, and truthfulness needed to be present during one's lifetime.”

#15064 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“merging with the concept and goddess Ma'at to develop further responsibilities for Aten beyond the power of light itself”

#16474 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“He was thus said to be the secretary and counselor of the Sun god Ra, and with Ma'at (truth/order) stood next to Ra on the nightly voyage across the sky.”

#19533 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Ma'at or Maat (Egyptian: ma’at /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation”

#23415 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“As one of the forty-two assessors of Ma'at, Nehebkau was believed to judge the deceased after death”

#24425 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5