KA PART - 3

 

The Ka was a symbol of offering and protection

Egyptian Symbols | the ka :

Ka was the generative and affective vital force that related each Being color to the universal force that animates the Cosmos.

His hieroglyph consisted of two arms raised in a gesture of adoration or embrace. The Ka was a symbol of offering and protection.

Furthermore, it represented another notion: the name, the Ren. The knowledge of each being's name was indispensable in Egyptian magic as the name kept the identity secret. The fact of being able to name gave the mage domain and summoning power. The Ka provided the psychovital force that allowed the name to exist. It also designated the faculty of a god, a person or an animal, to carry out their acts in life. Therefore, it was associated with food and offering, as an energetic support for all actions.

 

Origin :

When the potter god Knum fabricated the first body with clay, he created at the same time the Ka, the psycho-energetic double of the physical body that was actually its invisible matrix.

Without Ka there is no life. To die for the Egyptians was to separate the body from the Ka. The physical body belonged to this world, while Ka dwelt in the visible and the invisible: he carried the soul to the invisible, passing through the false door of the tomb. Thus, it also represented the ancestral energy that was venerated in the tombs by the living.

Horus, the founding god of the Pharaonic Royalty, bequeathed to the first human King his Royal Ka, which was transmitted from coronation to coronation.

 

The power of ka :

The principles of Egyptian stone architecture are inseparable from the concept of Ka. As we have seen, the Ka was a manifestation of vital energies, not of a physical order, but rather of a psychic one, which explained its role as animator of bodies, statues, and offerings. In its manifestation, it had a creative and conservative role. It could thus designate the power of Creation proper to the Divinity or netjer, as well as the sustaining forces that animated the universal order, Maat.

According to some authors, Ka is the "celestial double of manifest or terrestrial things". But in reality, the definition should be reversed: the terrestrial world is an “animated copy” of Heaven, thanks to Ka, which is somehow the storehouse of the vital forces from which life proceeds, thanks to which life subsists and where life returns after death.

 

“The desire for an eternal continuity of existence finds its tangible expression in stone architecture, as it alone was able to provide an indestructible symbol of the visible reality of the Ka. Unlike the adobe building, which sufficed for the duration of human life, the stone construction could withstand the onslaught of time. That's why the Egyptians only built in stone the monuments of eternity, the temples and the tombs, and never the houses and palaces” (Schwarz, F., Geografia sagrada del Egypt Antiguo, Editorial Errepar, Buenos Aires, 1996).

 

Hieroglyph Ka :

The hieroglyph Ka was closely linked to the ancestral gesture of transmitting a spiritual force. Hence the belief that the stone could be the abode of supernatural forces: the raised stone, which becomes pyramidal. This allows us to understand one of the enigmatic texts found in the Unas pyramid: "Tuna puts its arms behind, around the King, around this pyramid, the arms of the Ka, so that the Ka of the King can last, - forever in the eternity".

 

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