The 'KA' concept in ancient Egypt and today |
The Ka, sometime shown with a pair of arms and raised
hands resting on its head (the hieroglyphic symbol for the Ka), was a spiritual
double residing inside every individual.
However, unlike our ideas of ethereal
projections, the Ka was almost as corporeal as the body, not grey like a ghost,
but chromatic and lit by an aura of life-power.
Recent Egypt reports of rare Rameses KA statue discovered near Cairo |
The Ka needed sustenance to survive however, requiring ‘bread, beer, beef and fowl, a thousand of
food-offerings, a thousand of drink-offerings, all the plants that sprout from
earth, a thousand of all things good and pure...’
Modern fiction
and movies abound with stories of the confused dead who are trapped, sometimes
unknowingly, in their Ka state and struggling to set right some mistakes in their
lives, (The Ka of Gifford Hillary by
Dennis Wheatley and the films The Sixth
Sense and Ghost).
And of course the
Kas of the dead appear as characters in some of the earliest fiction in
history, the cycle of tales that grew up around the magus, seeker of knowledge
and anachronistic Prince Khaemwaset himself.
He features in my novel "KA - History's first traveller - a journey out of time."
He features in my novel "KA - History's first traveller - a journey out of time."
In fact quite a few of my novels tap into the ghostly and supranormal, including 'ONE DAY I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING'
and 'THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS'
(trilogy) |
Fiction by Roy Lester Pond
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