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Maat (which is associated with solar, lunar, astral, and the river Nile's movements) is a concept based on humanity's attempt to live in a natural harmonic state. [43] Maat is associated with the judgment of the deceased and whether a person has done what is right in their life. [44] Thus, to do Maat was to act in a manner unreproachable or ...
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The First Authentic Presentation of the Complete Papyrus of Ani, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1994. Hart, George, A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, Routledge, 1986, ISBN 0-415-05909-7. Taylor, John H. (editor), Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Journey through the afterlife, Londra, British Museum Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7141-1993-9.
What is known of the Duat derives principally from funerary texts such as the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns, the Coffin Texts, the Amduat, [1] and the Book of the Dead. [7] [3] Each of these documents fulfilled a different purpose and give a different conception of the Duat, and different texts could be inconsistent with one another.
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Isfet or Asfet (meaning "injustice", "chaos", or "violence"; as a verb, “to do evil” [1]) is an ancient Egyptian term from Egyptian mythology used in philosophy, which was built on a religious, social and politically affected dualism. [2]
Liber Pennae Praenumbra (The Book of the Pre-Shadowing of the Feather) is a text by American occultist Nema Andahadna who said that she channeled the text in 1974 while in meditation. The result was a work imbued with poetic and cryptic language, filled with references to cosmic justice, personal enlightenment, and the magical formula IPSOS .
[23] [25] These spells were among those adapted into the Book of the Dead starting in the New Kingdom. Spells 310 and 311 of the Coffin Texts are referred to in Chapters 79, and 125 in the Book of the Dead. Chapter 79 refers to the burning of the heart, while the scene of judgment and devouring of hearts is found in Chapter 125. [23]