A declaration of innocence corresponds to each deity: it is pronounced by the dead himself, to avoid being damned for specific "sins" that each of the 42 Judges is in charge of punishing.

[1][2] The deceased was accompanied in the presence of Osiris by the psychopomp god Anubis – where he would have declared that he was guilty of none of the "42 sins" against justice and truth by reciting a text known as "Negative confessions".

[5][6] If the heart and the feather were equal, then the deities were convinced of the rectitude of the deceased, who could therefore access eternal life becoming mꜣꜥ-ḫrw (Egyptological pronunciation: Maa Kheru), which means "vindicated / justified", literally "true of voice" ("blessed" in a broad sense).

[12] The American egyptologist Richard Herbert Wilkinson thus inventoried, in his The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (2003), the 42 Assessors of Maat:[2] "Far-Strider" "Demolisher" "Fire-Embracer" (Old Cairo?

[13]) "Disturber" "Nosey One" "Youth" "Swallower of Shades" "Foreteller" "Dangerous One" (Giza Plateau[14]) "You of the Altar" "Double Lion" "Face Behind Him" "Fiery Eyes" "Hot-Foot" "Flame" backwards" "You of the Darkness" "Bone Breaker" "Bringer of Your Offerings" "Green of Flame" "Owner of Faces" (13th / 14th Upper Egyptian nome) "You of the Cavern" "Accuser" (in Punt[16]) "White of Teeth" Shezmu "House of Nature" "Eater of Entrails" the king "Lord of Truth" "You Who Acted Willfully" "Wanderer" "Water-Smiter" "Pale One" "Commander of Mankind" "Doubly Evil" (7th / 8th Lower Egyptian nome[17]) "Wememty-Snake" Bestower of Powers" For self "See Whom You Bring" "Serpent With Raised Head" "Over the Old One" "Serpent Who Brings and Gives"