A Concise Dictionary of Egyptian Archaeology

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A Concise Dictionary of Egyptian Archaeology
Brodrick, Mary
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Digitized by Google EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY 81 K Ka. The Ka in Egyptian pneumatology was one of the seven parts of man. It corresponds to the (jenius of classic writers, constituting a separate entity, a kind of spiritual double, as the Fravashis of the Zorojigtrians.
** As the Eoman appeased his genius, so is the Egyptian king frequently sculptured in the act of propitiating his own Ka." The prayers in the tombs are for oblations to the Ka of the deceased. In the earliest times we find mention of
... the office of hen ka, Ka figure. Ka banner.
i.e. minister or priest of the Ka. In birth scenes, as in that of Hatshepsut at D6r-el-Bahri there are always two little figures represented, one that of the royal infant, the other his Ka. That the ordinary Egyptian found some little difficulty in so entirely abstract a conception is evidenced by the fact that he made statues for the Ka to inhabit when the body was dead G Digitized by Google 82 A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF and mummified. These were exact likenesses of the deceased, and one or more were placed in a serdab (q*v,) in the tomb for the use of the Ka.


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