Quoting my own comment to previous post, courtesy of JH Stotts timely visit... :
Learned recently (from curious & deep tome titled "Hamlet's Mill", by G. Santillana & M. von Dechend) that Egyptian hieroglyphic writing often conflated the symbol for "heart" with that for "plumbline." One of the myths held that when a person dies, Osiris weighs the heart in the scales with the "feather" (symbol) of truth... there we have a kind of double measurement : the plumb-weight or plummet (of the heart), set in the scales of justice...
Anyway... nice to think of this valuation of heart, balance, measurement, & plumbline...
"In measurement began our might" (WB Yeats)
- Happy Holidays, everyone... !
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