Justice
Justice represents fairness, karma, and clear judgment, symbolized by scales, a sword, and a crown. It emphasizes impartiality and truth, beyond personal feelings or biases. Rooted in Roman and Egyptian mythology, Justice embodies an unerring arbiter that answers only to the universal truth.
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Concept
The blind arbiter of truth and justice and executioner of subsequent swift punishment, Justice is shown with the classic trinity of symbols: the scales that measure the weight of one’s heart, the sword that equalizes wrongdoings, and the crown of impartial truth that stands above man’s subjective thoughts and reasonings.
Impartiality
Her veil occludes personal vendettas and heartfelt pleas, and indeed Justice should be less embodied as a true human with emotion and more as the sentinel that answers to no man or power, save for that which is revealed by the searing light behind her as the one and only truth.
Call to Action
Justice calls us to put aside our own predilections, though difficult it may be, and to see our actions, our selves, and the world around us through eyes that are not our own.
Additional Artwork
Behind Justice is the constellation Libra, the Scales of Justice.
Origins
Justice, as a personification of the quality, originated in Roman mythology through the goddess Justitia, representing one of the four Cardinal virtues of Prudence, Courage, Temperance, and Justice. Celebrated by the emperor Augustus, a temple in her honor was also built and soon many authoritative figures, wanting to associate themselves with the impartial ruling, would use her symbol.
Cultural Influence
Rome, being a far-spanning culture, was influenced by Egyptian culture, and indeed found the origins of the Scales of Justice in Egyptian mythologies.
Egyptian Mythology
In the Egyptian story of the afterlife, the heart, the seat of the soul, is weighed against a feather, representing the ideals of the goddess of truth, Ma’at. Those found unworthy were doomed to spend eternity in Duat, the Egyptian underworld, while their hearts were eaten by the demoness Ammit.
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