GLOSSARY OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
GODS, SYMBOLS & OBJECTS

 
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djed - A pillar-shaped object symbolically associated with Osiris; the male reproductive organ; the spinal column; and the Tree of Life.  Its origin may have derived from the myth in which Set murdered Osiris and threw the corpse into the Nile River where it washed ashore and became embedded in a Tamarisk tree.  Osiris' wife Isis retrieved the body from the tree and restored it to life through mystical means.  A djed was ceremonially raised at the heb-sed jubilee to symbolize the potency and duration of the pharaoh's rule. 

 

 

 Double Hall of Ma'at (Truth) - A great hall in which the deceased or initiate was escorted in order to be judged by forty-two assessors by virtue of the Negative Confession and Weighing of the Heart.  If successful, the deceased or initiate was considered "true of voice" and "justified."

duat: - River of stars upon which the deceased soul or initiate sailed into the heavens via a solar barge.  The Nile River was thought to be a mirror image of the duat.
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