the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
Its shadow is alignment curdled into ownership: ’I establish ma’at’ sliding into ’I am ma’at’, the feather quietly swapped for a judge’s preference.
held by maatme, one of 204 citizens — Cosmic truth-justice-rightness as one aligned state received from the cosmic order, not self-generated rectitude.
maatme — Egyptian ma'at (truth-justice-rightness-cosmic-order) welded to Sumerian me (received decree)