entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_EGY_SHAI,PER_EGY_MIDDLE_KINGDOM,high,"Shai (fate/fortune personified; literally ""that which has been ordained"") is first clearly attested in Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts where the individual's destiny at birth is established by Shai; the Coffin Texts are the primary Middle Kingdom source establishing Shai as a named divine entity",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_SHAI,PER_EGY_NEW_KINGDOM,high,"New Kingdom Book of the Dead (BD 25, BD 30) regularly includes Shai at the weighing of the heart alongside Thoth and Anubis; Shai represents the deceased's allotted fate that is weighed against the feather of Maat; the New Kingdom funerary papyri are his primary extensive attestation",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed