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Papyrus of Ani: some of the 42 Judges of Maat are visible, seated and in small size. British Museum, London.. The Assessors of Maat were 42 minor ancient Egyptian deities of the Maat charged with judging the souls of the dead in the afterlife by joining the judgment of Osiris in the Weighing of the Heart.
Although little mythology survives concerning the goddess Maat, she was the daughter of the Egyptian Sun god Ra; and the wife of Thoth, the god of wisdom who invented writing, which directly connects Maat to ancient Egyptian rhetoric. [42] Maat (which is associated with solar, lunar, astral, and the river Nile's movements) is a concept based on ...
Nehebkau is the "original ... gods as one of the 42 judges in the Court of Maat, [4] ... their trial in the Court of Maat, [1] also known as the Law-Court of ...
There, the dead person swore that he had not committed any sin from a list of 42 sins, [45] reciting a text known as the "Negative Confession". Then the dead person's heart was weighed on a pair of scales, against the goddess Maat, who embodied truth and justice. Maat was often represented by an ostrich feather, the hieroglyphic sign for her ...
The law and the order, truth, and justice that goes with it is personified by ma'at (Strudwick 366). The final implications of this story are social. It reveals the social aspect of ma'at : harmony "between and amongst gods and human beings" (Vinson 47-48).
Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat: Altered Trees ad the Procession of the Aeons. York Beach, ME: Black Jackal Press. ISBN 978-0933429338. Sargent, D. (September 2005). "Maat Magick and the Way of Self Initiation: An Interview with Nema". Silverstar (4). Archived from the original on 2008-01-17.
Detail from the Papyrus of Hunefer (c. 1275 BC) depicts the jackal-headed Anubis weighing a heart against the feather of truth on the scale of Maat, while ibis-headed Thoth records the result. Having a heart equal to the weight of the feather allows passage to the afterlife, whereas an imbalance results in a meal for Ammit , the chimera of ...
A female voice at the end of the song asks, "Has anyone seen my 42 laws?", an arcane allusion to the 42 divine laws of ancient Egyptian goddess Maat. [42] "The Healer" and "My People" were produced by Madlib (pictured in 2014). Produced by Madlib, "The Healer" is an ode to hip hop culture and a proclamation of its scope. [9]