the egypian's soul with the body of a bird and the head of a human with the face of the dead person's face and head.
Ba wasn't a god, but rather the Egyptian ideal of what a soul was.
In Egyptian 'Ba' translates directly into Life Force. The best English translation would be soul.
Louis V. Z abkar has written: 'A study of the ba concept in ancient Egyptian texts' -- subject(s): Ba (Egyptian religion), Egyptian Eschatology, Eschatology, Egyptian
Because, ba is a word. In Egyptian methology, the eternal soul.
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In the world of academia, it is an abbreviation for bachelor of arts degree.
go to this website http://library.thinkquest.org/J002037F/ba_and_ka.htm "Every Egyptian was thought to have a ba and a ka. The ba was sort of how they acted or in other words their personality. The ka was the life force of all living humans."
Ba was a musician and Ka was a sculpture
As it originates from a dead language, nobody can be 100% sure on the pronunciation. Many scholars pronounce it as it is spelled (baa-stet).
In hieroglyphs: π ππ or π ππ ± (Gardiner's code: G17-X1-A14 or G17-X1-G43, respectively) Transliterated as: mt or mwt (consonants only) Meaning and Translation: (intransitive verb) to die (noun) death Pronunciation with reconstructed vowels in several stages of Ancient Egyptian (using IPA): /ΛmaΛwat/ - Old Egyptian (c. 2500 B.C.E.) /ΛmaΛwaΚ/ - Middle Egyptian (c. 1700 B.C.E.) /ΛmoΛw/ - Late Egyptian (c. 800 B.C.E.) β²β²β²© (mou) - Coptic (Akhmimic, Bohairic, Fayyumic, Lycopolitan, Old Coptic, Sahidic) (c. 325 B.C.E.)
a Ba would be a soul like thing, usually traveling in dreams to what the Egyptians would believe to be the future, or something important happening in the present. that wold be Sydney Brown. I read that in the red pyramid, by Rick Riordan. for more info, read that book.
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