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The most notable translation of a soul in Ancient Egypt would be "ba", one of the five forms of a spirit that wanders at night to places that you are not supposed to see. When a person's "ba" was allegedly "traveling" at night, it can was believed to be very dangerous, because malevolent spirits could potentially see and kill your "ba", resulting in instantaneous death in their sleep. In Egyptian Mythology, a being's spirit is made up of five collective entities, such as personality, or "ba", name ("ren"), shadow ("Sheut", heart ("Ib") and life ("ka").

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  • Egyptian soul
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  • The most notable translation of a soul in Ancient Egypt would be "ba", one of the five forms of a spirit that wanders at night to places that you are not supposed to see. When a person's "ba" was allegedly "traveling" at night, it can was believed to be very dangerous, because malevolent spirits could potentially see and kill your "ba", resulting in instantaneous death in their sleep. In Egyptian Mythology, a being's spirit is made up of five collective entities, such as personality, or "ba", name ("ren"), shadow ("Sheut", heart ("Ib") and life ("ka").
  • The Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body (called the ha, occasionally a plural haw, meaning approximately sum of bodily parts). The other souls were aakhu, khaibut, and khat.
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  • Human Soul
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  • Egyptian Spirit
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  • A Typical Depiction of "ba" with a bird's body and human head
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  • Spirit
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  • Malevolent Spirits
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  • Thebes
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  • The most notable translation of a soul in Ancient Egypt would be "ba", one of the five forms of a spirit that wanders at night to places that you are not supposed to see. When a person's "ba" was allegedly "traveling" at night, it can was believed to be very dangerous, because malevolent spirits could potentially see and kill your "ba", resulting in instantaneous death in their sleep. In Egyptian Mythology, a being's spirit is made up of five collective entities, such as personality, or "ba", name ("ren"), shadow ("Sheut", heart ("Ib") and life ("ka").
  • The Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body (called the ha, occasionally a plural haw, meaning approximately sum of bodily parts). The other souls were aakhu, khaibut, and khat.
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