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").