Ancient Egyptian goddess of truth, she is often symbolized in the form of a feather. According to myth, the feather of Maat was weighed against the heart of the deceased. The afterlife of a dead person was determined by whether their heart balanced with the feather.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...