ba

Definition

A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian bꜣ, G53-Z1

Example Sentences

• "Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience."
• "But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive."