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Glown Star | 22:22 Wed 25th Oct 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit left the body when it died. These ghosts were considered responsible for illnesses and misfortune of the deceased person's family. What was this type of ghost known as. Anyone got any idea please ?
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............... or maybe "Ba"? ..............

Ba is one's personal, private Divinity who knows us and takes an interest in us like no other Deity. In Egyptian imagery, it is imagined in the form of a bird hovering above the head that leaves the body at the time of physical death, as witnessed in numerous depictions in Pharaonic and other wealthy families' tombs. "The Dispute between a Man and his Ba" (Berlin Papyrus 3024) is a 4,000 year old hieroglyphic document which was recently translated by Bika Reed, and was meant for initiates of the inner temple.

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