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	Truth
		Feather of truth Feather of truth is an ideogram for the goddess.
		Seeker of Truth The Seeker of Truth is a character from The Sword of Truth: The Seeker of Truth is a position that is ab...
		Truth This article is primarily concerned with truth as it is used in the evaluation of assertions.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/truth.html (801 words)

	The truth about feather - Gypsy Horses, Irish Cob Horses at Black Forest Shires
		To Shire, Clydesdale, or Gypsy Horse breeders, this is NOT a "feathered" horse.
		Feather is a recessive, and it is accumulative.
		This is about the least amount of feather that is at all acceptable in a mare (and only if she is the larger sized, shire-ish type of mare).
	www.gypsyhorses.com /feather.htm (3865 words)

	Maàt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since she was considered as merely the concept of order and truth, it was thought that she came into existence at the moment of creation, having no creator.
		In Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against a single feather, symbolically representing the concept of Maàt, in the Hall of Two Truths.
		Maàt was depicted in art as a woman with wings and an ostrich feather on her head or sometimes just as a feather.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feather_of_truth (258 words)

	Imitator
		“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all wo/men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
		“A new truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”.
		15 “The love of truth; the pleasure the mind feels in overcoming difficulties; the satisfaction of contributing to the general store of knowledge; the engrossing nature of a pursuit so exalted as that of diving into the wonders of creation; all these are very powerful incentives to exertion...”.
	chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net /Truth.htm (621 words)

	THE SHRINE OF MA'AT
		She was present at the judgement of the dead; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life.
		This Feather formed the Hieroglyph of her name and could be used by itself as an abstract representation of the goddess.
		Her name is often translated as "truth" or "justice," but her essence is the cosmic order and natural laws that maintain existence at its deepest level.
	www.isismoontemple.com /temple08fmaat.html (1683 words)

	Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Feather
		Shu was the Egyptian god of the air and the father of the earth (Geb) and the sky (Nut).
		The seat of the deceased's soul, his heart, was weighed on a balance against the feather of Ma'at.
		The significance of the feather in this context is uncertain.
	www.egyptianmyths.net /feather.htm (238 words)

	Arabic Number 4
		The Maat "truth feather" represents the feather from the shaft of an arrow.
		The Maat feather, the "truth feather," was symbolic of spoken truths such as the given word of an individual, ideological truths, or learned truths of the intellectual kind.
		The Goddess Maat was the goddess of truth and justice.
	www.resurrectisis.org /Number4.htm (1093 words)

	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).
	www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org /egypt/eg12.htm (423 words)

	The Feathers Site - everything about feather mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The newly died person´s soul had to be as light as a feather to pass the judgement of Ma´at.
		Ma'at (Maet, Mayet) is the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and the underworld.
		She is often portrayed as wearing a feather, symbol of truth, on her head.
	www.geocities.com /felicitax/Mythology.htm (537 words)

	MAAT: Truth, Justice, natural law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was present at the judgement of the dead Maat was tall woman with an ostrich feather in her hair.
		; her feather was balanced against the heart of the deceased to determine whether he had led a pure and honest life.
		This was done by weighing one's heart (conscience) against the feather of Maat (truth and justice).
	waltm.net /maat.htm (344 words)

	Feather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Feather is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		She is called the daughter of Ra, the eye of Ra, lady of heaven, queen of the earth, and mistress of the Underworld, who guides the course of the sun.
		The heart was the center of instinct and the precious kernel of immortality and it was this which was weighed in the balance against the feather of truth, known as Maat.
	www.experiencefestival.com /feather (800 words)

	Duat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duat is also one of the many names by which the plant Syzygium cumini is known.
		In Egyptian mythology, Duat is the underworld, where the sun traveled from west to east during the night and where dead souls were judged by Osiris, using a feather, representing Truth.
		Souls which were weighted down by sin were eaten by Ammit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duat (84 words)

	Ramesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Egyptians viewed the heart as the seat of intellect and emotion; as such, it played a central role in the rebirth of an individual in the afterlife.
		The heart of the individual was weighed against the feather representing the goddess of truth, Ma’at, in a judgment process overseen by Osiris, the lord of the underworld.
		Central to the scene was a large balance, with the heart in one pan and either a feather or a tiny figure of Ma'at, in the other pan.
	carlos.emory.edu /RAMESSES/3_weighheart.html (232 words)

	Background Information - Ancient Egypt
		The heart would be weighed against a feather, the symbol of truth.
		If the heart was too heavy with Earthly sins and did not balance with the feather, it was thrown to a monster god called Ammit, who ate it.
		If the heart did balance with the feather of truth, the mummy passed into immortality.
	www.amonline.net.au /teachers_resources/background/ancient_egypt04.htm (763 words)

	Tehuti Research Foundation - Egyptians: The Most Religious
		Ma-at’s symbol is the ostrich feather, representing judgment or truth.
		Her feather is customarily mounted on the scales.
		The heart, as a metaphor for conscience, is weighed against the feather of truth, to determine the fate of the deceased.
	www.egypt-tehuti.com /religion.html (1508 words)

	Borders - Feature - Matchmaking: A Conversation with Jane Feather
		Compared to much of Jane Feather's work, this new series is practically contemporary: It's set in 1906 and features a trio of sisters who run a matchmaking business.
		Jane Feather: In truth the matchmaking aspect of the stories was a very minor one from my point of view.
		I was actually mainly focused on the concept of a subversive underground magazine and its anonymous, politically active, socially prominent editors.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=featherjane (666 words)

	Pagan News - Pagan News & Information
		She was Truth and Order, Harmony and equilibrium, justice and supreme balance; the concept that the universe, above everything else is an ordered and rational place.
		In the underworld, Maats headband supplied the Feather of Truth, the ostrich feather which the souls of the deceased were weighed against in the Hall of Two Truths in Duat.
		Her symbol is a woman with wings and a feather on her head.
	www.pagannews.com /cgi-bin/gods3.pl?Maat (318 words)

	Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		the heart against the feather of truth to see if the person was honest.
		If the heart weighed more than the feather of truth it meant that the person was dishonest.
		If the person was dishonest his or her heart would be eaten by the devourer, a monster that was part alligator, part cheetah, and part lion.
	www.site-ology.com /egypt/RELIG.HTM (338 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: Serious Sam Guide: Secrets
		Secret Ammo: On your way to the Feather of Truth, shoot one of the four pillars to reveal the secret ammo.
		Secret Place: As you enter the room the Feather of Truth is in, look left and you'll see an alcove with a jump pad in it.
		Secret Room: In the Feather of Truth area, you'll notice that one of the platforms has no pillar on it.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/march01/ssguide2/index13.shtm (391 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts : Permanent Collection - Ancient - Papyrus of Nes-min (detail) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this vignette Nes-min is led into the presence of Osiris and the gods who judge the dead by Ma'at, goddess of truth.
		His judgement is represented by the weighing of his heart against an ostrich feather, symbolizing truth and right-doing.
		If he did not pass this individual judgment, his heart would be fed to the "devourer," the monster crouching in readiness before Osiris.
	www.dia.org /collections/ancient/egypt/1988.10.13.html (172 words)

	Egyptian Project 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Then the gods would weigh the heart of the dead person against the feather of truth.
		If the heart was heavier than the feather, that meant that the person would die a second death which was forever.
		If the heart was lighter than the feather the person would go on into a happy afterlife.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/egypt/egypt3.html (425 words)

	Nancy Spero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nancy Spero 1095940974 1095976800 Santiago de Compostela Spagna CGAC http://www.cgac.org cgac.prensa@xunta.es 1095940974.jpg 1105052399 o Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea Nancy Spero Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth For over five decades, the art of American artist Nancy Spero (Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) has challenged the status quo in aesthetic, ideological and humanitarian domains.
		The fragility of the paper, the open-endedness of the scroll format, and the processes of printing and collaging text and images that are recycled, repeated and juxtaposed are, today, widely recognized as Spero’s signature elements.
		Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth is Nancy Spero’s first solo exhibition in a Spanish museum.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1095976800.1095940974.html (312 words)

	The God Anubis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By supervising the weighing of a dead person's heart against the feather of truth, Anubis helped Osiris to decide who would go on to the afterlife.
		Anubis was revered by all those who, on their death, hoped to be judged 'virtuous' and therefore fit to go in to the next world.
		Anyone whose heart weighed equal or lighter than the feather of truth was presented to Osiris in the underworld.
	www.myjourneyaroundtheworld.co.uk /egyptian_history/your_egyptian_gods/the_god_anubis.htm (519 words)

	Weighing of the Heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The heart was weighed against the feather of truth.
		The feather came from Maat the goddess of truth.
		If the hearts weight is equal to the feather the person may pass to the afterlife.
	www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us /Egypt99/Shaw/NZheart.htm (358 words)

	Luxor and the Valley Tombs
		The goddess Maat can be recognized by the feather on her head.
		It is this -- Maat's Feather of Truth -- which will be used at a dead person's Final Judgment.
		Thoth will weigh their heart on a balance against the Feather of Truth, and if the heart is heavier, then their soul will be damned.
	www.leafpile.com /TravelLog/Egypt/Luxor/Luxor.htm (880 words)

	Mythical tales of Libra
		The god Osiris god of life and death then judges the soul of man, here their heart was weighed on the scales against the feather of Truth.
		The Egyptian Goddess Maat, Her Emblem is the feather of Truth and Justice who stands in the halls of the under-world ready to place her Feather of Truth on the scales if the heart balanced with the feather they would have eternal life.
		The scales represent balance and justice from a spiritual point of view so enhancing universal truths rather than earthly ones that can be quite different.
	www.astroawareness.com /myths/mythlibra.html (742 words)

	Dictionary of signs, symbols, God's and Goddess
		The closer you look at fear or rather the image that has symbolized your fear, begins to get smaller and smaller until you are left with the root problem which step by step can be dealt with.
		The Egyptian Goddess Maat, Her Emblem is the feather of Truth and Justice.
		She stands in the halls of the under-world ready to place her Feather of Truth on the scales if the heart balanced with the feather they would have eternal life.
	www.astroawareness.com /symbols/symbols.html (1763 words)

	James Muir Bronze Sculptor "Feather of Truth" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the mythology of ancient Egypt, at death, the deceased’s heart would be weighed against the ‘Ma’at,’ the feather of Truth.
		If the heart, heavy with inequity, tipped the scales out of balance, the judged one would be ferried across the river Styx to the Underworld to serve the sentence of divine Justice.
		“Truth is ONE; the sages speak of it by many names.”
	www.jamesmuir.com /feather_of_truth.html (90 words)

	Gods of Egypt and biblical myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From left: Isis (whose symbol is the throne above her head), married to Osiris, seen at the far right, the king of the realm of the dead (Duat).
		In the middel Anubis, the weigher of the heart of the deceased against the feather of Truth, the goddess Maat.
		Anubis weighs the heart of the deceased against the feather of Maat (truth and justice): If one's heart (conscience) was heaveier than the feather, you were thrown to the monster Ammit to be devoured and reborn in the physical world.
	home6.inet.tele.dk /cordua/egypt-uk.htm (403 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article: Serious Sam Guide: Walk-through
		To complete this level, you need to first find two items: The Feather of Truth, and The Golden Heart.
		This room is where you'll find the Feather of Truth.
		Follow the path on around to the right, and you'll see the platform with the feather on it.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/march01/ssguide3/index12.shtm (593 words)

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