Rozin V.M. The three souls of the noble Egyptian of the ancient world: “Ba”, “Ka”, “Ah”

Abstract: the article discloses the meanings of the hypostasis of the soul of the ancient Egyptian – “Ba”, “Ka”, “Ah”, soul-name, soulshadow, and their origin. Thus, the genesis of “Ba” shows that its’ understanding goes back to the archaic understanding of the soul. The genesis of “Ka” leads to the practice of “rejecting the lips and eyes”, allowing to create an immortal ancient Egyptian counterpart of the soul. The author proposes the hypotheses about the role of the soul-name and the soul-shadow. The role of the name is clear enough: it allowed to identify a specific person, which was understood in the ancient world as the same as the creation of the world by the word; oblivion of the name was equal to murdering its owner. The article introduces the concept of a “virtual entity”, an idea of the soul-Ka is interpreted as one of the first versions of the virtual subject.

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