The Goddess Maat as the Cosmological Origin of Kemet Rule of Law The surviving artifacts of the Kemet viziers and scribes evidence that Kemet rule of law was “Maat,” contained at least in part in observing the 42 Laws of Maat. Many scholars refer to the people as 'kmt' or Kemet. Kemet is the name the native African people of the country now known as Egypt called themselves in their surviving writings. Maat was the rule of law and moral justice among the ancient Kemet people, and the divine cosmological order within their mythology, astronomy, and astrophysical studies.