For the modern Western mind, accustomed to seeing the world through fragmented lenses—separating science from religion, law from morality, and nature from spirituality—it is a herculean challenge to comprehend the magnitude of what Ma'at meant to an ancient Egyptian.

In the annals of Egyptian mythology, alongside the solar power of Ra and the passionate magic of Isis, stands a figure of supreme intellect and quiet authority: Thoth (or Djehuty).