The transfigured dead who has passed the judgment and become an effective spirit, able to act among the gods.
Tradition · Ancient EgyptianEgyptian Soul Part
A note on this entry
Becoming an akh is the goal of the funerary rites; the word carries the sense of 'effective, luminous, glorious' and is linked to the imperishable stars.
Correspondences
- Element
- Fire
Practice
- Magical Uses
- Ancestor workTransformationSpirit contactProtection
Nature and meaning
- English
- the effective spirit
Details
- Transliteration
- Ꜣḫ
- Function
- The transfigured dead who has passed the judgment and become an effective spirit, able to act among the gods.
- Keywords
- Effective spiritTransfigurationStarAfterlife
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