Ma’at & Thoth

Artist Statement

Ma'at (pronounced May-et) is the ancient goddess of truth, justice, harmony, and balance. Her ostrich feather represents truth. Ma'at sat in judgment over souls of the dead, in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. She had a vital role in the mortuary rituals of Egypt, which evolved into the “Principle of Ma'at; the desired right attitude, which remains the ethical and moral foundation of the Egyptian people. Thoth, in Egyptian religion, is a god of the moon. He is a god of reckoning, learning, and writing. He was held to be the inventor of writing, the creator of languages, the scribe, interpreter, advisor of the gods, and representative of the sun god Ra. He was said to be self-created or born of the seed of Horus; from the forehead of Set. Thoth was most commonly depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or as a seated baboon with or without a lunar disc above his head. Ma'at is sometimes seen as his wife.

— Linda Ternoir