ma'at

Today, in Western Civilizations class with Mr. Schick, we finished the information that we would need for our test tomorrow on prehistory, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Today’s material included pharaohs and gods! The Ancient Egyptian pharaohs were considered to be infallible, since they were thought to be gods on Earth. In fact, the Egyptians believed that they were actually made gods upon their death. However, this status came with a catch. If you messed things up and broke ma’at, then you were “kicked out of office.” For example, if there was a drought, the pharaoh would be held responsible for it and accused of not sacrificing properly to the gods. Therefore, the people would throw you out and put in a replacement pharaoh. It probably got crazy trying to appease all the gods having over 2000 of them. I mean really, how did they keep track of them all? I’ll bet you your entire life’s savings as well that they didn’t have a whole temple to every last one of them either.