The seated ibis-headed Thoth, the scribe of the gods, preparing to record the result of the Weighing of the Heart of the deceased Ani against the feat

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The seated ibis-headed Thoth, the scribe of the gods, preparing to record the result of the Weighing of the Heart of the deceased Ani against the feather of Law which represents Maat, the divine personification of truth and order. Set in in the Hall of the Two-Fold Maat, an illustration from the Book of the Dead.

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Keywords: 1275, afterlife, ancient, ani, bc, book, conscience, day, dead, duat, egypt, ibis, judgement, justice, keeping, maat, magic, morality, myth, mythology, psychostasia, record, scales, scribe, spells, thoth