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This all began with a drawing I did of an ankh holding a Ma'at feather, which was based on an ankh with Ma'at feather at the Ramesseum. I wasn't content with it, though, and I thought better to illustrate 'balance'(one of the aspects of Ma'at) with a mandala. Also, the center connecting bands suggest the 'connective justice' aspect. I'd hoped to find falcon wings for the corner element, but a 'Dover' line drawing of Nekhbet was a reasonable substitute. Usually Nekhbet grasps the 'shen' symbol for eternity, but I'd already expressed 'eternity'. (How fortunate that the hieroglyph for neheh, 'eternity of cyclical futurity', is also symmetrical, to nicely fit into the design!) So I placed Set's Was scepters, to convey the idea of 'power'.
I wanted to send for prints, so I added borders to make it easily frameable:
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