9 World Chronicles

What is the Ba or Soul

 

 

The Ba an Egyptian symbol for the soul usually depicted as a bird with the head of the deceased. The ba is believed could flit between the world of the dead and the living if one knew the proper power words or spells (thought brought to life by the spoken word)

 

The Ba is only one of 9 very important components to the human “soul”.

Again, the importance of the sacred number 9 rears its pretty head. 9 being the number of completion.

 

In the line of this mythology the 8 Ogdoad pairs create Atum (9) and existence and life were created.

 

Ra would sir the 8 deities would join him to create the Ennead or 9 Shu and Tefntu, Geb and Nut, Ausra and Auset and Seth and Nepthys.

 

9 Would be import in the representation of the soul as well

 

The Khet is the physical form  which is why mummification became important as it was seen as essential for the afterlife.

 

Sah (spiritual body   spiritual representation of the physical body) forms. This spiritual body was then able to interact with the many entities extant in the afterlife. The Sah could manifest in this planes as well as an angry spirit.

Ib is the heart which is the center for emotion its formed from a dop of the mothers blood.

It was thought that the heart was examined by Anubis and the deities during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. If the heart weighed more than the feather of Maat, it was immediately consumed by the monster Ammit, and the soul became eternally restless.

The heart is judged and weighed in the Weighing of the Heart Ceremony. If the heart was judged to be heavy with sin it was devoured by the monster Ammit.

 

The Ka is your vital essence the spark of life that comes from the universe. It’s the part of all of us that is divine. The Ka is immortal.

Shut (shadow)

A person's shadow or silhouette, šwt (shut), is always present. Because of this, Egyptians surmised that a shadow contains something of the person it represents.

 

sḫm (sekhem) as the living force or life-force of the soul which exists in the afterlife after all judgement has been passed.

 

Ren is a person’s given birth name its is seen as the sum of a person’s identity, experiences and knowledge.

 

Akh is the intellect and is associated as thought as a divine force.

 

The Ba is the unique aspect of a person, this is what makes us different, it is shaped by the intellect (Akh), the hearth and the Ka vital essence and the life force.

 

When a person suffers a mortal death the Ka leaves the body, the opening of the mouth ceremony frees the Ba and its components to join the Ka.

 

The ancient Kemet believed that the afterlife was similar to this life. As above so below. Is a phrase that captures that, and the Ba and Ka would create a new entity to replace the khet that as met it mortal time.

 

 

9 Components of Human Existence