The Weighing of the Heart CeremonyThe Two Ma'at in the Judgment Hall weigh the heart of the dec
The Weighing of the Heart CeremonyThe Two Ma'at in the Judgment Hall weigh the heart of the deceased against a statue of Ma'at.Ma'at was the symbol of the cosmic order and it was believed that there were two of them: one for the living and one for the dead. Vignette from a papyrus depicting the Weighing the Heart of the deceased in a balance.The baboon is one form of Thoth, inventor of writing and secretary to the gods, whose other form is as an ibis-headed man. He is usually associated with this scene in order to register the outcome of the weigh in. Above the balance is a block of written hieroglyphs extract from the spell 125 of the Book of the Dead.Detail from a funerary papyrus dates to the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, ca. 1550-1292 BC. Now in the Louvre. -- source link
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