Maat

Maat, pinna struthionis in capillis, sceptro in dextra, et cruce ansata in laeva manu.

Maat alata.

Maat pinnam veritatis gerit.

Cor in Duat penditur, pinna Maatiana pro mensura in libra adhibita. Ex Libro Mortuorum.

Maat, vel Ma'at, in Aegypto antiqua fuit sententia veritatis, aequilibrii, ordinis, iuris, morum, et iustitiae, quae personificata dea stellas, tempora anni, et acta mortalium et deitatum moderabatur, ac formam universi ex tempore creationis instituerat. Res gemella ideologica fuit Isfet.

Pharaones saepe depinguntur cum signis Maat ad partes exprimendas quas in legibus creatoris conservandis agebant.

Bibliographia

• Assmann, Jan. 1990. Ma'at: Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im Alten Ägypten. C. H. Beck Verlag. ISBN 3406346677.
• Black, James Roger. 2002. The Instruction of Amenemope: A Critical Edition and Commentary--Prolegomenon and Prologue. Dissertatio PhD, Universitas Visconsiniae-Madison/ Textus.
• Budge, E. A. Wallis. (1895), 1967. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation. Novi Eboraci: Dover Publications.
• Budge, E. A. Wallis. (1904), 1969. The Gods of the Egyptians: Studies in Egyptian Mythology. Vol. 1. Novi Eboraci: Dover Publications.
• Collier, Mark, et Bill Manly. 1998. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Ed. retractata. Berkeleiae: University of California Press.
• Faulkner, Raymond. 1994. The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Franciscopoli: Chronicle Books. ISBN 0811864898.
• Mancini, Anna. 2004. Maat Revealed: Philosophy of Justice in Ancient Egypt. Novi Eboraci: Buenos Books America.
• McCall, Henrietta. 1990. Mesopotamian Myths. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0292720769.
• Menu, Bernadette. 2005. Maât: L'ordre juste du monde. Editions Michalon. ISBN 2841862836.
• Strudwick, Helen. 2006. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Singapurae: De Agostini UK.
• Taylor, John H., ed. 2010. Journey through the afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Londinii: British Museum Press. ISBN 071411989X.