Her ostrich feather represents truth.
Maat or Ma'at refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation.
This is the origin of the 147 negative confessions (others refer to 42) from which the Ten Commandments were "borrowed" and this dates to somewhere between 2375 BCE and 2345 BC.
By the way...I have my own Ten Commandments...which must be followed. :)
I wonder if Maat had a queening chair?
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