The provenance file on Mꜣ
Provenance record 151 · Mꜣ · one temple, fully accounted for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. 𓌴𓏤, from the tradition's own record.
2. The narrative record. The Weighing of the Heart — In Spell 125 of the Book of the Dead, the deceased enters the Hall of the Two Truths and declares before Osiris and the forty-two assessors that he has not committed theft, murder, falsehood, or any of the sins that disturb mꜣꜥt. His heart is placed on the scales opposite the feather of Mꜣꜥt. Mꜣꜥt in the Barque of Ra — Temple texts place Mꜣꜥt beside Ra in the solar barque. She is the ordering power that steadies the sun's journey through the night hours of the Duat, ensuring that chaos does not swallow the light.
3. The physical record. The concept of mꜣꜥt is ubiquitous in Pharaonic material culture: ostrich-feather amulets, tomb paintings of the psychostasia (weighing of the heart), royal offering scenes in temples from Karnak to Edfu, and papyri of the Book of the Dead. The Papyrus of Ani and the Book of the Dead of Hunefer are among the most famous visual witnesses. Temples of Maat existed within larger complexes, and judges and officials often bore titles invoking mꜣꜥt.
4. The current holding. The temple at /sites/ma/, classified Tier 1. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
5. The documented resonances. Legal, Justice & Compliance, Architecture & Spatial Design, Software, Cloud & Developer Infrastructure — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
6. The primary sources. The Book of the Dead — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
7. The continuing record. The root mꜣ survives in every museum exhibit of the Book of the Dead and in every account of Egyptian ethics. Its personification, Maat, has become an international symbol of justice, balance, and ecological harmony.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Mꜣ
- ASCII form: ma
- Meaning: "Truth, rightness, correctness, measure. Root of Maat (mꜣꜥt), the cosmic principle of truth and order"
- Domain of influence: Truth, Rightness, Correctness, Measure
- Pantheon: Egyptian
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: 𓌴𓏤
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 151 of 287
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