The body itself, the corpse that is preserved and buried; it is the anchor of the other parts and the object of mummification.
The seven-part scheme (khat, ka, ba, akh, ib, sheut, ren) is a modern systematisation of terms that the Egyptians used in overlapping ways; there is no single canonical ancient list of seven. Each term is real; the tidy set is the modern frame.
Correspondences
- Element
- Earth
Practice
- Magical Uses
- GroundingAncestor workEmbodimentProtection of the body
Nature and meaning
- English
- the physical body
Details
- Transliteration
- H̱t
- Function
- The body itself, the corpse that is preserved and buried; it is the anchor of the other parts and the object of mummification.
- Keywords
- BodyCorpseMummificationEarth
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