Maat as a "basic value"

 
"The concept of Maat [elsewhere Ma'at] is basic to any understanding of Egyptian religion." (71)
 
Maat "is more than a goddess, Maat is the principle of truth, justice, and right order in society" (70)
 
"As a basic value rather than a series of explicit laws she has much in common with the Jewish concept of Hokhmah, or Wisdom, with whom she has often been compared" (see also the link to Sophia here)
 
"she is personified in her own right and, in that guise, coalesces with Isis"
 
"Maat is championed by the god Thoth"
> from Joan Chamberlain Engelsman's The Feminine Dimension of the Divine (1979)

> tagged with #myth, #goddess, #egypt

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