I have given bread to the hungry and water to the thirsty. I have given clothes to the naked and a ferryboat to the boatless.

Book of the Dead, Spell 125 (Positive Confessions) · the works of Maat

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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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