Phakth is the Nehekharan Pantheon god of the sky and justice. Depicted as a muscular man with a hawk's head, he can also appear as a large, blue-banded hawk with golden eyes. In either form, his piercing gaze is said to be able to see the sins of the deceased.[1a][2a]
In Nehekharan religious belief, the recently deceased travels to the Hall of the Dead in the Realm of Souls, the Underworld, where Phakth weighs their soul. The scales show the soul's moral merit, and that determines whether the person can move on to the next stage of spiritual growth or must go back and begin again in another life of the mortal world.[2b]
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Phakth's name may be based on that of the Egyptiann deity Ptah, the creator god. Meanwhile, the deity Horus, the Egyptian god of kingship and the sky, was also depicted as a falcon like Phakth.