Speak truth, do truth, for it is great. It is mighty. It endures. Maat is its name.

Maxims of Ptahhotep · the central maxim

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Maat

In ancient Egyptian cosmology, Maat was both a goddess and a principle — the order that holds back chaos (Isfet), the truth that lights the world, the balance that the Pharaoh's job was to maintain. When you died, your heart was weighed on a scale against a single feather of Maat…

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