She is the daughter of Ra. She rides in the solar boat. The world is held together because she is at the heart of it.
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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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