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The heart (ib / jb) of the deceased was then weighed on a two-plate scale: a plate for the heart, the other for the feather of Maat. Maat, in whose name the 42 judges who flanked Osiris acted, was the deification of truth, justice, rectitude, and order of the cosmos and was often symbolized by an ostrich feather (the hieroglyphic sign of her name).
Archangel Michael is commonly depicted holding scales to weigh the souls of people on Judgement Day.. The weighing of souls (Ancient Greek: psychostasia) [1] is a religious motif in which a person's life is assessed by weighing their soul (or some other part of them) immediately before or after death in order to judge their fate. [2]
The heart of Hunefer weighed against the feather of Maat Some of the 42 Judges of Maat are visible, seated and in small size. Maat's feather of truth depicted in the bottom right corner ( British Museum , London) An image based on a section of the Book of the Dead showing the Weighing of the Heart in the Duat using the feather of Maat as the ...
The Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of Maat. To the ancient Egyptians, the judgment of the dead was the process that allowed the Egyptian gods to judge the worthiness of the souls of the deceased. Deeply rooted in the Egyptian belief in immortality, judgment was one of the most important parts of the journey through the afterlife.
The central panel portrays the Hindu god Yama judges the dead. Other panels depict various realms/hells of Naraka.. Judgement in an afterlife, in which one's deeds and characteristics in life determine either punishment or reward, is a central theme of many religions.
Such was the doctrine of metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls, as a justification of the ways of God to man, prevailing among the Hindus of all classes and sects, the Pythagoreans, the Orphic mystics and the Druids among the Celts. The doctrine of a forensic judgment in the unseen world, by which the eternal lot of departed souls is ...
God takes a stand in the divine council, gives judgment in the midst of the gods. (text and footnotes) United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 82 – Earthly Judges Before the Great Judge (text and detailed commentary) enduringword.com; Psalm 82:1 (introduction and text) Bible study tools; Psalm 82 / Refrain: Arise, O God, and judge ...
Some translations of this passage render "God (elohim) stands in the congregation of the mighty to judge the heart as God (elohim)" [10] (the Hebrew is "beqerev elohim", "in the midst of gods", and the word "qerev" if it were in the plural would mean "internal organs" [11]). Later in this Psalm, the word "gods" is used (in the KJV): Psalm 82:6 ...