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The 28 pages that link to Ma'at, each with the reason it gives.

• Ancient Egyptian religionRelated: Maintaining Ma'at was a shared aim of rulers, priests, and worshippers.

• Ancient EgyptRelated: Ma’at provided an ideal that rulers claimed to uphold and restore.

• PharaohRelated: A pharaoh’s legitimacy rested on preserving this order in human and divine affairs.

• Book of the DeadRelated: The deceased had to meet its moral standard at judgment.

• Pyramid TextsRelated: The king’s successful afterlife depends on sustaining the order that Ma’at embodies.

• Ancient Egyptian funerary practicesRelated: The heart’s comparison with Ma’at’s feather measured the deceased’s moral fitness.

• Ancient Egyptian artRelated: Images helped sustain the ordered world that Ma'at represented.

• Egyptian kingshipRelated: The king’s central duty was to uphold this order against chaos.

• Egyptian mythologyRelated: Ma'at governed divine conduct, royal duty, and the moral judgment of the dead.

• Egyptian templeRelated: Ritual offerings upheld the order that temples were expected to maintain.

• Ancient Egyptian architectureRelated: Architectural order and royal building projects could materialize ideals of cosmic stability.

• RaRelated: Ra’s continuing course sustains the ordered cosmos associated with Ma’at.

• Coffin TextsRelated: The deceased's standing among the gods depended on alignment with this order.

• Ancient Egyptian kingshipRelated: The king’s central duty was to uphold maat against disorder.

• Ancient Egyptian literatureRelated: Literary portrayals of good rule and proper conduct often invoke this ideal.

• Egyptian templesRelated: Temple rites helped sustain the order that Ma'at represented.

• AtenRelated: Aten’s rule over life and the world was expressed through Egypt’s established idea of cosmic order.

• NutRelated: Nut’s regular cycle of swallowing and rebirthing the Sun expresses cosmic order.

• Amenhotep IIIRelated: His temples and royal images expressed kingship as the maintenance of divine order.

• Great Hymn to the AtenRelated: The hymn presents the world sustained by Aten’s regular, life-giving order.

• ThothRelated: Thoth records and upholds the order Ma'at embodies.

• AnubisRelated: The judgment Anubis oversees measures the deceased against Ma'at’s standard.

• TefnutRelated: Tefnut’s place in the ordered cosmos belongs to a theology shaped by Ma’at.

• SekhmetRelated: Sekhmet’s violence could defend the order Ma’at represented, but also threaten it.

• Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefsRelated: Judgment measured the deceased against this standard of right order.

• GebRelated: Geb’s place beneath the sky helps express the ordered world governed by Ma’at.

• KemetismRelated: Many Kemetists treat Ma'at as a guiding ethical and spiritual principle.

• The Maxims of PtahhotepRelated: The maxims treat disciplined conduct as a way to uphold social and moral order.