![]() ![]() ![]() This essay describes how seven African American women from various faiths adopted a nutritional and spiritual program based on an African traditional religion in order to engage a health concern that is inadequately addressed by Western traditional medicine. Ma’at is often represented by a feather on one side of weighing scales, or just a feather alone, to indicate the relative lightness of truth. Ma’at is the neteru or deity of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice in the religious system of ancient Egypt that is often referred to as Kemet or KMT. ![]() These are five of the forty-two laws of the Kemetic neteru Ma’at that I and six other African American women recited daily as we undertook a program of nutrition and spirituality designed to address our reproductive health. ![]()
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