Weighs heart against a feather
A motif · Behaviour · Thompson E754, The dead
One figure in this bestiary carries it.
Nearby in Thompson's index
Motifs this bestiary also holds from E750 and below. The codes are the index's; the names and counts are ours.
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E752Soul theft by passing over a corpse 1 figure -
E752Judges souls at threshold of underworld 2 figures
Carried by
Anubis
In the judgment of the dead, Anubis is credited with weighing the heart of the deceased against the feather of Ma'at on a set of scales, determining whether the soul was pure enough to pass into the afterlife or would be devoured by the monster Ammit.