Egyptian PantheonHall
Hall of Ma'at
The Hall of the Two Truths, where the heart of the dead is weighed against the feather of Maat before Osiris and forty-two judges, as described in Book of the Dead Spell 125.
About Hall of Ma'at
Weighing of the heart
The Hall of Two Truths (Maat) is where the deceased's heart is weighed against the feather, Anubis adjusting the scale, Thoth recording, Ammit waiting. Book of the Dead Spell 125 is the great negative confession before forty-two judges. Osiris presides. This is the moral bottleneck of the Egyptian afterlife as New Kingdom officials imagined it. There is no separate temple of the Hall; coffins and papyri are the building.
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- Book of the Dead, Spell 125
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