Feather H6
- Sound
- mꜣꜥt: maat
- Meaning
- Truth, order, justice (Maat).
- Kind
- word sign
- How common
- 96th commonest of our 336 signs: 0.14% of all signs written in real texts.
- Unicode
- U+13184 𓆄
Read more about the feather sign
- Feather of Maat: what it means and how the heart was weighed The feather of Maat hieroglyph: the ostrich feather that writes mꜣꜥt, truth and order, weighed against the heart of the dead, and where to see it.
- The negative confession: the 42 denials of the Book of the Dead The negative confession of Book of the Dead spell 125: the dead deny 42 wrongs before 42 judges. Real denials in translation, one read sign by sign.
- The Teaching for Merikare: a king's advice to his son Teaching for Merikare: an Egyptian king tells his son how to rule. Its famous lines in translation, one read in hieroglyphs sign by sign.
- Usermaatre: the throne name of Ramesses II and the kings who copied it User maat ra, Usermaatre: 'the justice of Ra is strong', the throne name of Ramesses II, read sign by sign, and the later kings who took it.