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Maat
Maat West AsiaDaughter of Re and the Egyptian goddess of truth, who wore a single ostrich feather. As a personification of truth and justice her feather was placed in one pan of the balance used for weighing the soul of a dead man in the judgement before Osiris, king of the ‘other land’.
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