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Ma'at was the goddess of the physical and moral law of Egypt.
The Egyptians believed that if the pharaoh Ma’at was the wife of Thoth and had eight children. The eight were called the chief gods and goddess of Hermopolis. Legends say they created the world. Ma’at’s favorite child was Amon because he was the most famous out of all the other gods and goddess. A way of recognizing Ma’at is she is always wearing an ostrich feather in her hair and sometimes she has wings attached to her arms. When the dead were looked over, it was Ma’at’s feather that was sticking up from her head that helped her judge them. If the person's heart was as light as a feather, that meant that the dead person would live forever in the underworld, but if the person’s heart was heavier then the feather, then Anubis would slice them up into pieces and they would not live in the underworld. |
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didn’t follow Ma’at’s rules,
Chaos would return to Egypt and destroy it. Egyptians believed that Chaos
already destroyed the would once.