Warning! This article contains spoilers for Moon Knight! Read at your own risk!
Moon Knight surprised everyone with Episode 5 having a totally different feel given that the run explored the traumatic past of Marc and Steven as they journey through the realm of the Duat on their way to the Field of Reeds. There, they encountered Anubis’ Scales of Justice and Ma'at's Feather of Truth as Taweret guides them.
Moon Knight Episode 5: What is Anubis' Scales of Justice and Ma'at's Feather of Truth?
In Moon Knight Episode 5, Asylum, Steven introduces Taweret to Marc being their guide to the afterlife. The Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility is also the same deity who cleanses and purifies the souls of the dead in preparation for their judgment on the scales of justice of Anubis opposite the feather of truth.
Marc asks Taweret if the place they are in is “the” afterlife and the latter explains that it is an afterlife, not “the afterlife,” where there are a lot of intersectional planes, even mentioning the Ancestral Plane in Black Panther. Taweret further revealed that the realm of Duat is what the mind comprehends it to look like, for them, Marc claims it’s because they are insane.
As Marc tries to prove his point that such place may be what Harrow coins as the organizing principle, Marc opens a random door that surprised him as he sees that they are in a ship in the underworld where they are on their way to the A’aru, the Field of Reeds, as Steven discussed to Marc, Taweret notes that Steven is the smart one.
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Taweret then takes their hearts out to put it on the Scales of Justice opposite the Feather of Truth. Steven explains that the heart shows who a person is in real life and the scales must balance before the journey to A’aru or the Field of Reeds ends to get through. Taweret says that if it wouldn’t one would be thrown away to the sands and be frozen in sand forever.
In the ancient Egyptian mythology, Anubis’ Scales of Justice weighs the heart of the dead believing that the heart can tell who the person really is when he or she was alive. Opposite the heart is Ma’at’s Feather of Truth which shall determine whether the dead would be worthy to reach A’aru or be left in the underworld. If the feather balances with the heart, the dead would be allowed to pass through heaven. If not, you know what happens.
Moon Knight Episode 5 is now streaming on Disney Plus.
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