Egyptian Gods

The Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five element, which is Ren (name), Ba (individual personality), Ka (life force), Sheut (shadow), and Ib (heart).

Ba is one of the important part of the human soul, that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of ‘personality’ or ‘the person’s individuality’. Egyptian believed that, the ‘Ba’ as an aspect of a soul would live after the body died, and it is sometimes depicted as a human-headed bird flying out of the tomb to join with the ‘Ka’ in the afterlife.

In Egyptian art, the Ba always portrayed as a human-headed bird, usually a human-headed falcon. Ba also often depicted as a winged figure, the Ba-bird, an emblem of the ascension of the soul after death.