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Truth, justice, and cosmic order represented in funerary judgment.
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The Egyptian judgment of the soul
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Maat
Truth, justice, and cosmic order represented in funerary judgment.
Egyptian funerary religion
Tirard explains maat as the law or order through which the universe exists. Truth and justice apply that order to human conduct, connecting the steadiness of the world with obligations between people.
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At the weighing, a figure of the goddess of Truth or her feather occupies the scale opposite the heart. The heart must balance with truth, making conduct visible as a relation rather than a verbal assertion alone.
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