Maat
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Maat, Ma'at, Maāt or Mayet, thought to have been pronounced *Template:IPA-xx, was the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, who set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation.
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See also
- Seshat - Goddess of Writing and Measure, a wife of Thoth
- Egyptian soul
- Rta - principle of Vedic religion 'that which is properly joined: order, rule, truth'.
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