Infected Blood - Chapter 1 - Cover and Page 1
Hello Steemit,
How's it going today? Ready for a new installment of Infected Blood? Check out the cover and the first page of Chapter 1 below. There's a meaning behind that feather, I promise! Read on :)
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Ma'at is the Egyptian goddess of justice. Her symbol is the ostrich feather you can see in the cover.
According to Egyptian mythology, when a person died, s/he was judged in a very simple way: Anubis would put his/her heart (ib) on top of a scale, and then place the Ma'at feather on the other side. If the soul of the person was pure, the scale wouldn't move one way or the other. The person would then go to some sort of paradise, which was nothing but Egypt minus the hardships - hard work, diseases, etc. But if the heart was sinful, it would weigh more than the feather, and a demon called Ammit would eat up the person's heart, condemning his/her soul to be restless forever (or destroyed, according to an alternative version).
You can read more about Ma'at and Ammit here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit
Till next time!
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Nice setting. It's refreshing. I'm guessing you had this scene in mind for a while. ;-)
Yep :) I wanted to have something relaxing and fun, at least once in a while (even if these four are having delinquent fun...)
Haha, The best kind of fun!