8 | Principles of Ma'at

42 Divine Principles of  Ma'at ¦ Pharaohs 10 Rules for Slave Humanity

Maat was the goddess of harmony, justice, and truth represented as a young woman.

Sometimes she is depicted with wings on each arm or as a woman with an ostrich feather on her head

The doctrine of Maat is represented in the declarations to Rekhti-merti-f-ent-Maat and the 42 Negative Confessions listed in the Papyrus of Ani

I have not committed sin.

I have not committed robbery with violence.

I have not stolen.

I have not slain men and women.

I have not stolen grain.

I have not purloined offerings.

I have not stolen the property of the gods.

I have not uttered lies.

I have not carried away food.

I have not uttered curses.

I have not committed adultery.

I have made none to weep.

I have not eaten the heart [i.e.,

I have not grieved uselessly, or felt remorse].

I have not attacked any man. I am not a man of deceit.

I have not stolen cultivated land. I have not been an eavesdropper. I

have slandered no man. I have not been angry without just cause.

I have not debauched the wife of any man.

I have not debauched the wife of any man (repeats the previous affirmation but addressed to a different god).

I have not polluted myself.

I have terrorized none.

I have not transgressed the Law. I

have not been wroth.

I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.

I have not blasphemed.

I am not a man of violence.

I am not a stirrer up of strife (or a disturber of the peace).

I have not acted (or judged) with undue haste.

I have not pried into matters.

I have not multiplied my words in speaking.

I have wronged none,

I have done no evil.

I have not worked witchcraft against the King (or blasphemed against the King).

I have never stopped the flow of water.

I have never raised my voice (spoken arrogantly, or in anger).

I have not cursed or blasphemed God.

I have not acted with evil rage.

I have not stolen the bread of the gods.

I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the spirits of the dead.

I have not snatched away the bread of the child, nor treated with contempt the god of my city.

I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god.

Former Preacher

" The Ten Commandments was stolen from the laws of ma'at"

1000 years b4

Pharaoh Moses

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