lancelotfan:

Mythology meme:Ma’at: Goddess of truth, justice, and harmony.  

  is the ancient Egyptian goddess that represented the conceptions of divine order, balance, morality, truth, reality and justice. She came into being when Ra rose from the waters of Nun, thus she is known to be one of his daughters. In this aspect, she is said to have set the world in order after the creation, especially the behavior of the stars, the seasons, the mortals and even the deities. She is the wife and consort of Thoth and bore eight children with him who later became the eight primeval deities of Hermopolis (the most famous of which is Amun). Her name, sometimes also spelled “Mayet”, literally means, “That which is straight”.

Ma’at is revered for bringing the end of chaos and giving structure into a world once ruled by darkness and disarray.  That is why pharaohs made sure to uphold her principles lest chaos return and destroy the world.  All rulers respected her but her most fervent followers included the Pharaohs Akhenaten and Hatshepsut. Hatshepsut even built a temple to her honor in Karnak near the precinct of Montu and named her throne Ma’atkare which literally translates into “justice is the soul of re”.