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__**Egyptian Gods**__ by K Young   **__Ma'at__** **Ma'at**, or the patron of truth, law, and universe order, is the goddess of order, justice, truth, and balance. She was called the goddess of truth because "Ma'at" actually means the word truth in Egyptian language. She had a "Hall of Ma'at" which is where the ceremony of the dead was preformed in afterlife. The "Hall of Ma'at" was also called the "Hall of Two Truths". Ma'at always wears ostrich feathers on her head like a head piece and has black hair. Ostrich feathers were considered the sacred bird of Ma'at. Sometimes, Ma'at has wings of a vulture under her arms and sometimes has a scepter in one hand and an ankh in the other hand. She was the daughter of Ra who was considered the head leader of the Egyptian gods. Ma'at was the wife of Thoth and had eight children. Thoth and Ma'at were chief god and goddess of the Egyptian nome "Hermopolis". Ma'at the powerful goddess has some strengths and weaknesses. A strength that she had was balance and just and a weakness that Ma'at had was that she was very exacting with her guidelines. What that means is that there were no second chances. Ma'at was a very strong goddess in ancient Egypt. __**Hapi**__ **Hapi**, or Hep, Hapy, and Hap is the god of the Nile River. Hapi was very ancient to modern people, but also ancient to Egyptians. His symbol is running water. Hapi had separated Egypt into two parts, the Northern Egypt and Southern Egypt. In Northern Egypt, Hapi had a wife named Buto who looked like a Cobra, was called Hap-Reset and wore a lotus plant on his head. In Southern Egypt, he had a wife named Nekhebet who looks like a Griffon Vulture, was called Hap-Meht and wore papyrus plants on his head. Hapi had blue, green, or tan skin color and has a ankh in his hand. An ankh is like a cross, but the top part is a hole (shown in the second picture below). In ancient times, an ankh meant life. Hapi caused floods in the Nile River, so the floods were called the "Arrival of Hapi". People threw offerings into the river to please Hapi so he would give the people the perfect amount of water from the river to their fields. Hapi was know as one of the best Egyptian gods.

