Maat - Goddess of Cosmic Harmony

Who is Maat?

• The Goddess Maat is often depicted with an Ostrich feather in her head, or kneeling with wings.
• Pharaohs invested themselves with the right to govern, claiming their rulership upheld the laws of the universe that Maat embodied.
• Her wisdom was crucial to the assessment of the dead, allowing those with a blameless life into paradise.
• Her influence rules legal matters and creates sound judgement, maintaining order and balance in the world.
• Her existence made life, and life after death, possible.
• Her colours are whites and mauves.

(Lawson 1996)