Abstract: To ancient Egyptians, Maat is a kind of divine order which is created immediately as the world is created and it is the operating rule of nature and human history. Matt, which is an abstract idea, is the key to understand the characteristics of ancient Egyptians' thought. On the basis of Matt, the ancient Egyptians developed an obscure ideology on history, which included relation between the divinity and human, pattern of development of social history, creation and kingship. The idea of Matt is the foundation on which the ancient Egyptians came to understand the past and to find the meaning of human being's existence.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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