Heart scarab
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heart-scarab-321-11588183
title:
Heart scarab
text:
The heart scarab is an oval scarab artifact dating from ancient Egypt. Mostly an amulet, it was also used as jewelry, a memorializing artifact, or a grave good. The heart scarab was used by referring to Chapter 30 from the Book of the Dead and the weighing of the heart, being balanced by Maat, goddess of truth, justice, order, wisdom, and cosmic balance. The function of the heart scarab was to bind the heart to silence while it was being weighed in the underworld to ensure that the heart did not
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Ancient Egyptian artifact
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_scarab
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date modified:
2023-05-26T03:09:18Z
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