Maat is great and its effectiveness lasting. It has not been disturbed since the day of its creation.

Maxims of Ptahhotep · c. 2400 BCE · the oldest book in the world

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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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