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| | Correspondences of Egypt: 12. Maat, The Affection of Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Though maat, the goddess of the single feather, is sometimes described as the female counterpart of Ptah, she is at the same time the constant associate of Thoth, and this to such a degree that she may be said to be simply a female Thoth. |
 | | Sometimes she is figured with the body of a woman, but with a feather instead of a head, and she is also, at times, provided with a pair of wings attached to her arms. |
 | | The hieroglyphics composing her name include the maat pedestal, a sickle, an arm, a feather, and a carpenter's level, as if to signify that the power (arm) of the affection of truth lies in equitable (level) judgment (sickle) according to truth (feather), based upon the letter of the Word, (the pedestal). |
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