You enter the next life carrying only what you weighed. Your titles are left at the door of the underworld. Your heart is the only thing on the scale.
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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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