# Ma'at · truth · order · the feather

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦Ma'at:NTR:c59e7a⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Themis / Dike* · Roman: *Justitia / Veritas* — truth & divine order — the cosmic law the Greeks personified as Themis and Dike

**who —** Ma'at, goddess and principle of truth, balance, justice, and cosmic order — the feather against which every heart is weighed.
**what —** Not just a goddess but the order of the universe itself; pharaohs ruled to ‘uphold Ma'at,’ and at death the heart is balanced against her single ostrich feather.
**where —** The hall of two truths (the judgment); the throne (every just king upholds her); the whole ordered cosmos.
**why —** Because Egypt's deepest idea is that the cosmos is moral — Ma'at is the truth-order that holds chaos (isfet) at bay.
**how —** By being the standard: kings govern by her, judges rule by her, and the dead are measured against her feather.

**the seal —** I am truth and order, light as a feather and heavier than the world — your heart is weighed against me, and so is every king's reign.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0