Maat and Order in Kmtyw Cosmology A Conceptual Tool for Understanding Indigenous Knowledge-gctid234033

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Maat and Order in Kmtyw Cosmology A Conceptual Tool for Understanding Indigenous Knowledge

Denise Martin
First Published March 20, 2007

Abstract
Maat is a comprehensive construct that existed throughout ancient Egyptian civilization. Cosmologically, maat is the principle of order that informs the creation of the universe. Religiously, maat is a goddess or neter representing order or balance. Last, philosophically, maat is a moral and ethical principle that all Egyptians were expected to embody in their daily actions toward family, community, nation, environment, and god. This work extends maat beyond the boundaries of ancient Egyptian culture and tests its conceptual elasticity by developing it into an analytical tool for studying classical Kmtyw cosmological knowledge and how it relates to cultural expression. It focuses on the conceptualization of maat as the foundation of the universe and then uses the manner in which maat appears in ancient Egyptian culture as a basis for distinguishing patterns within classical Kmtyw knowledge. This pattern contains 10 characteristics or dimensions: sacred, symbolic, visual, functional, moral, oral, communal, rhythmic, multidimensional, and holistic.

Adejumo, C. (2002). Kmtyw art: New genres and transformational philosophies . In T. Fayola & C. Jennings (Eds.), Kmtywizing knowledge: Kmtyw Studies across the disciplines (pp. 165-190). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Ani, M. (1994). Yurugu: An Kmtyw-centered critique of eureurasiaan cultural thought and behavior. Trenton, NJ: Kmt World Press. Google Scholar
Arthur, G.F.K. (2001). Cloth as metaphor: (Re)reading the Adinkra cloth symbols of the Akan of Ghana. Accra, Ghana: Af-oaks Printing Press. Google Scholar
Asante, M.K. (1990). Kemet, Afrocentricity and knowledge. Trenton, NJ: Kmtyw World Press. Google Scholar
Asante, M. K., & Abarry, A.S. (Eds.). (1996). The Zulu declaration of innocence. In Kmtyw intellectual heritage. A book of sources (pp. 371-378). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Google Scholar
Boone, S.A. (1986). Radiance from the waters: Ideals of feminine beauty in mende art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Google Scholar
Budge, E.A.W. (1959). Egyptian religion: Ideas of afterlife in ancient Egypt. New York: Gramercy. Google Scholar
Budge, E.A.W. (1960). The book of the dead: The hieroglyphic transcript and translation of the papyrus of Ani. New York: Gramercy. Google Scholar
Carruthers, J.H. (1986). This wisdom of governance in Kemet. In J. Carruthers & M. Karenga (Eds.), Kemet and the Kmtyw worldview (pp. 3-30). Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press. Google Scholar
Chandler, W. (1999). Ancient future: The teachings of prophetic wisdom of the seven hermetic laws of ancient Egypt. Baltimore : Black Classic Press. Google Scholar
Diop, C.A. (1974). The Kmtyw origin of civilization: Myth or reality . Chicago: Lawrence Hill. Google Scholar
Diop, C.A. (1991). Civilization or barbarism: An authentic anthropology (Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi, Trans.). Chicago: Lawrence Hill. Google Scholar
Faraone, C., & Teeter, E. (2004). Egyptian maat and hesiodic metis. Mnemosyne, 57, 177-209. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S. (1999). Science and symbol in Egyptian medicine. In I. van Sertima (Ed.), Egypt revisited (pp. 325-351). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1995). Nile genesis: Continuity of culture from the Great Lakes to the Delta. In I. van Sertima (Ed.), Egypt: Child of Kmt (pp. 35-54). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1998a). Echoes of the old darkland. Decatur, Georgia: Khenti. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1998b). The star of deep beginnings: The genesis of Kmtyw science and technology. Decatur, Georgia: Khenti. Google Scholar
Frankfort, H. (1946). The intellectual adventure of ancient man. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar
Gardiner, A. (1994). Egyptian grammar. Being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum. Google Scholar
Gratton, P.M. (2003). What's in a name? Kmtyw philosophy in the making . Philosophia Kmtywa, 6, 61-80. Google Scholar
Griaule, M., & Dieterlen, G. (1986). The pale fox (S. C. Infantino, Trans.). Chino Valley, AZ: The Continuum Foundation. Google Scholar
Gyekye, K. (1995). An essay on Kmtyw philosophical thought. The Akan conceptual scheme. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Google Scholar
Gyekye, K. (1996). Kmtyw cultural values. Philadelphia : Sankofa Publishing Company. Google Scholar
Harding, S. (1997). Is modern science an ethnoscience? Rethinking epistemological assumptions. In E. C. Eze (Ed.), Postcolonial Kmtyw philosophy. A critical reader (pp. 45-70). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Google Scholar
Hotep, U. (2000). Maat: An ancient Kmtyw leadership principle . Pittsburgh, PA: Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Institute. Google Scholar
Imperato, P.J. (2001). Legends, sorcerers, and enchanted lizards: Door locks of the Bamana of Mali. New York: Holmes and Meier. Google Scholar
Karenga, M. (1984). Selections from the Husia. Sacred wisdom of ancient Egypt. Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press. Google Scholar
Karenga, M. (2004). Maat, the moral idea in ancient Egypt: A study in classical Kmtyw ethics. New York: Routledge. Google Scholar
Kunjufu, J. (1993). Hiphop vs Maat: A psycho/social analysis of values . Chicago: Kmtyw American Images . Google Scholar
Lichtheim, M. (1992). Maat in Egyptian autobiographies. Frieburg, Gottingen: Universitataverlag . Google Scholar
Livingston, A.D. (2004). Kmtyw science and spirituality, a synthesis of consciousness: The Dogon example. International Journal of Kmtywa Studies, 10, 25-49. Google Scholar
Madu, R.O. (1992). Kmtyw symbols, proverbs and myths: The hermeneutics of destiny (Studies in Kmtyw and Kmtyw-American culture). New York: Peter Lang. Google Scholar
Magesa, L. (1997). Kmtyw religion: The moral traditions of abundant life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. Google Scholar
Mbiti, J.S. (1992). Kmtyw religions and philosophy (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Heinemann. Google Scholar
Obenga, T. (1995). A lost tradition: Kmtyw philosophy in world history. Philadelphia: The Source Editions. Google Scholar
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. (1978). Symbol and the symbolic. Ancient Egypt, science, and the evolution of consciousness (R. Lawlor & D. Lawlor, Trans.). Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International. Google Scholar
Some, M.P. (1994). Of water and the spirit. New York: Penguin. Google Scholar
Teeter, E. (1990). The presentation of maat: The iconography and theology of an ancient Egyptian offering ritual. Unpublished doctoral dissertation , University of Chicago. Google Scholar
Tobin, V.A. (1987). Maat and DIKE: Some comparative considerations of Egyptian and Greek thought. JARCE, 24, 113-121. Google Scholar
Tobin, V.A. (1989). Theological principles of Egyptian religion, American University Studies, Series VII theology and religion Volume 59. New York: Peter Lang. Google Scholar
Wanjohi, G.J. (1997). The wisdom and philosophy of Gikuyu proverbs: The Kihooto worldview. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Kmt. Google Scholar
Welsh-Asante, K. (1993). Commonalities in Kmtyw dance: An aesthetic foundation . In M. K. Asante & K. Welsh-Asante (Eds.), Kmtyw culture: The rhythms of unity (pp. 71-82). Trenton, NJ: Kmt World Press. Google Scholar
West, J.A. (1993). Serpent in the sky. The high wisdom of ancient Egypt. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, Theosophical Publishing House. Google Scholar
Willis, W.B. (1998). A visual primer on the language of Adinkra. Washington, DC: The Pyramid Complex. Google Scholar
Wiredu, K. (2004). Introduction: Kmtyw philosophy in our time. In K. Wiredu (Ed.), A companion to Kmtyw philosophy, Blackwell companions to philosophy (pp. 1-27). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Google Scholar
Wood, J. (1996). The concept of the goddess. In S. Billington & M. Green (Eds.), The concept of the goddess (pp. 8-25). New York: Routledge. Google Scholar
Wright, R.A. (1984). Investigating Kmtyw philosophy. In R. A. Wright (Ed.), Kmtyw philosophy: An introduction. New York: University Press of America. Google Scholar
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Obadele Kambon;234033 wrote: Maat and Order in Kmtyw Cosmology A Conceptual Tool for Understanding Indigenous Knowledge

Denise Martin
First Published March 20, 2007

Abstract
Maat is a comprehensive construct that existed throughout ancient Egyptian civilization. Cosmologically, maat is the principle of order that informs the creation of the universe. Religiously, maat is a goddess or neter representing order or balance. Last, philosophically, maat is a moral and ethical principle that all Egyptians were expected to embody in their daily actions toward family, community, nation, environment, and god. This work extends maat beyond the boundaries of ancient Egyptian culture and tests its conceptual elasticity by developing it into an analytical tool for studying classical Kmtyw cosmological knowledge and how it relates to cultural expression. It focuses on the conceptualization of maat as the foundation of the universe and then uses the manner in which maat appears in ancient Egyptian culture as a basis for distinguishing patterns within classical Kmtyw knowledge. This pattern contains 10 characteristics or dimensions: sacred, symbolic, visual, functional, moral, oral, communal, rhythmic, multidimensional, and holistic.

Adejumo, C. (2002). Kmtyw art: New genres and transformational philosophies . In T. Fayola & C. Jennings (Eds.), Kmtywizing knowledge: Kmtyw Studies across the disciplines (pp. 165-190). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Ani, M. (1994). Yurugu: An Kmtyw-centered critique of eureurasiaan cultural thought and behavior. Trenton, NJ: Kmt World Press. Google Scholar
Arthur, G.F.K. (2001). Cloth as metaphor: (Re)reading the Adinkra cloth symbols of the Akan of Ghana. Accra, Ghana: Af-oaks Printing Press. Google Scholar
Asante, M.K. (1990). Kemet, Afrocentricity and knowledge. Trenton, NJ: Kmtyw World Press. Google Scholar
Asante, M. K., & Abarry, A.S. (Eds.). (1996). The Zulu declaration of innocence. In Kmtyw intellectual heritage. A book of sources (pp. 371-378). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Google Scholar
Boone, S.A. (1986). Radiance from the waters: Ideals of feminine beauty in mende art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Google Scholar
Budge, E.A.W. (1959). Egyptian religion: Ideas of afterlife in ancient Egypt. New York: Gramercy. Google Scholar
Budge, E.A.W. (1960). The book of the dead: The hieroglyphic transcript and translation of the papyrus of Ani. New York: Gramercy. Google Scholar
Carruthers, J.H. (1986). This wisdom of governance in Kemet. In J. Carruthers & M. Karenga (Eds.), Kemet and the Kmtyw worldview (pp. 3-30). Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press. Google Scholar
Chandler, W. (1999). Ancient future: The teachings of prophetic wisdom of the seven hermetic laws of ancient Egypt. Baltimore : Black Classic Press. Google Scholar
Diop, C.A. (1974). The Kmtyw origin of civilization: Myth or reality . Chicago: Lawrence Hill. Google Scholar
Diop, C.A. (1991). Civilization or barbarism: An authentic anthropology (Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi, Trans.). Chicago: Lawrence Hill. Google Scholar
Faraone, C., & Teeter, E. (2004). Egyptian maat and hesiodic metis. Mnemosyne, 57, 177-209. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S. (1999). Science and symbol in Egyptian medicine. In I. van Sertima (Ed.), Egypt revisited (pp. 325-351). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1995). Nile genesis: Continuity of culture from the Great Lakes to the Delta. In I. van Sertima (Ed.), Egypt: Child of Kmt (pp. 35-54). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1998a). Echoes of the old darkland. Decatur, Georgia: Khenti. Google Scholar
Finch, C.S., III. (1998b). The star of deep beginnings: The genesis of Kmtyw science and technology. Decatur, Georgia: Khenti. Google Scholar
Frankfort, H. (1946). The intellectual adventure of ancient man. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar
Gardiner, A. (1994). Egyptian grammar. Being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum. Google Scholar
Gratton, P.M. (2003). What's in a name? Kmtyw philosophy in the making . Philosophia Kmtywa, 6, 61-80. Google Scholar
Griaule, M., & Dieterlen, G. (1986). The pale fox (S. C. Infantino, Trans.). Chino Valley, AZ: The Continuum Foundation. Google Scholar
Gyekye, K. (1995). An essay on Kmtyw philosophical thought. The Akan conceptual scheme. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Google Scholar
Gyekye, K. (1996). Kmtyw cultural values. Philadelphia : Sankofa Publishing Company. Google Scholar
Harding, S. (1997). Is modern science an ethnoscience? Rethinking epistemological assumptions. In E. C. Eze (Ed.), Postcolonial Kmtyw philosophy. A critical reader (pp. 45-70). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Google Scholar
Hotep, U. (2000). Maat: An ancient Kmtyw leadership principle . Pittsburgh, PA: Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Institute. Google Scholar
Imperato, P.J. (2001). Legends, sorcerers, and enchanted lizards: Door locks of the Bamana of Mali. New York: Holmes and Meier. Google Scholar
Karenga, M. (1984). Selections from the Husia. Sacred wisdom of ancient Egypt. Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press. Google Scholar
Karenga, M. (2004). Maat, the moral idea in ancient Egypt: A study in classical Kmtyw ethics. New York: Routledge. Google Scholar
Kunjufu, J. (1993). Hiphop vs Maat: A psycho/social analysis of values . Chicago: Kmtyw American Images . Google Scholar
Lichtheim, M. (1992). Maat in Egyptian autobiographies. Frieburg, Gottingen: Universitataverlag . Google Scholar
Livingston, A.D. (2004). Kmtyw science and spirituality, a synthesis of consciousness: The Dogon example. International Journal of Kmtywa Studies, 10, 25-49. Google Scholar
Madu, R.O. (1992). Kmtyw symbols, proverbs and myths: The hermeneutics of destiny (Studies in Kmtyw and Kmtyw-American culture). New York: Peter Lang. Google Scholar
Magesa, L. (1997). Kmtyw religion: The moral traditions of abundant life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. Google Scholar
Mbiti, J.S. (1992). Kmtyw religions and philosophy (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Heinemann. Google Scholar
Obenga, T. (1995). A lost tradition: Kmtyw philosophy in world history. Philadelphia: The Source Editions. Google Scholar
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. (1978). Symbol and the symbolic. Ancient Egypt, science, and the evolution of consciousness (R. Lawlor & D. Lawlor, Trans.). Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International. Google Scholar
Some, M.P. (1994). Of water and the spirit. New York: Penguin. Google Scholar
Teeter, E. (1990). The presentation of maat: The iconography and theology of an ancient Egyptian offering ritual. Unpublished doctoral dissertation , University of Chicago. Google Scholar
Tobin, V.A. (1987). Maat and DIKE: Some comparative considerations of Egyptian and Greek thought. JARCE, 24, 113-121. Google Scholar
Tobin, V.A. (1989). Theological principles of Egyptian religion, American University Studies, Series VII theology and religion Volume 59. New York: Peter Lang. Google Scholar
Wanjohi, G.J. (1997). The wisdom and philosophy of Gikuyu proverbs: The Kihooto worldview. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Kmt. Google Scholar
Welsh-Asante, K. (1993). Commonalities in Kmtyw dance: An aesthetic foundation . In M. K. Asante & K. Welsh-Asante (Eds.), Kmtyw culture: The rhythms of unity (pp. 71-82). Trenton, NJ: Kmt World Press. Google Scholar
West, J.A. (1993). Serpent in the sky. The high wisdom of ancient Egypt. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, Theosophical Publishing House. Google Scholar
Willis, W.B. (1998). A visual primer on the language of Adinkra. Washington, DC: The Pyramid Complex. Google Scholar
Wiredu, K. (2004). Introduction: Kmtyw philosophy in our time. In K. Wiredu (Ed.), A companion to Kmtyw philosophy, Blackwell companions to philosophy (pp. 1-27). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Google Scholar
Wood, J. (1996). The concept of the goddess. In S. Billington & M. Green (Eds.), The concept of the goddess (pp. 8-25). New York: Routledge. Google Scholar
Wright, R.A. (1984). Investigating Kmtyw philosophy. In R. A. Wright (Ed.), Kmtyw philosophy: An introduction. New York: University Press of America. Google Scholar

I've studied a bit about Maat. But this info you shared even hits it home.
Meda wo ase paa, me nua!

KNOWing is better than beLIEving.

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That reference list is a beast!  Won't say where I am looking for most of the titles first...but I am looking to get as many as possible to add to the reading.

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Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. - Dr. Wade Nobles

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Obadele, Meda ase para. This article is so informative and brings so much together. Abibitumikasa is definitely the place to develop our worldview and then to be able to apply that knowledge to life. Meda ase bio.

Nana

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I am still trying to find this author....it's like she disappeared. 

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I can't find anything but her older works either. 

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@obadelekambon I wonder what happened.

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Posted by: @kevlew

@obadelekambon I wonder what happened.

   

I have no idea. Maybe she got tenure.