Maat

'''Ma'at or Maat' (Egyptian: ma’at /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet (Egyptian jzft''), meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil.

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Maat was an ancient Egyptian concept encompassing truth, balance, law, morality, and justice, as well as a goddess who embodied these principles and maintained cosmic order among the stars, seasons, and actions of both gods and humans. Her opposing force was Isfet, representing chaos, injustice, and violence—making Maat central to how Egyptians understood a properly ordered universe.

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Deity.type: Egyptian
Deity.name: Ma’at
Deity.image: Maat.svg
Deity.caption: Ma’at is both the goddess and the personification of truth, cosmic balance, and justice. Her ostrich feather represents the truth.
Deity.god_of: Goddess of Order
Deity.cult_center: All ancient Egyptian cities
Deity.symbol: scales, ostrich feather, Balance
Deity.parents: Ra and Hathor
Deity.consort: Thoth
Deity.offspring: Seshat
Deity.hiero: U5:a-t-C10 ! or H6 ! or U5:D36-X1-Y1:Z1*Z1*Z1*Z1 ! or U1-Aa11:X1-C10 ! or C10 ! or U5:D42-X1:Y1:Z2-I12 ! or U5:D42:X1-H6-C10-Y1-Z3 ! or H6-X1:H8-C10

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Pronunciation
History
Goddess
Principle
Law
Scribes and scribal school
Scribes
Scribal schools
As rhetorical concept
In ancient Egyptian texts
Performance in ancient Egyptian letters
Persuasion in ancient Egyptian letters
Temples
Afterlife
Weighing of the Heart
Assessors of Maat
Funerary texts
42 Negative Confessions (''Papyrus of Ani'')
Gallery
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Works cited
Further reading
External links

'''Ma'at or Maat' (Egyptian: ma’at /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet (Egyptian jzft), meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil.

==Pronunciation== Cuneiform texts indicate that the word was pronounced /múʔʕa/ during the New Kingdom of Egypt, having lost the feminine ending t. Vowel assimilation of u to e'' later produced the Coptic word / "truth, justice".