akh

Definitions

1. In Egyptian mythology, (roughly) a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife.
2. Brother; a close male friend or associate.
   Multicultural-London-English, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Their abode is heaven; and the Akh, by contrast with the Ba, does not retain⟳ any relation to the body.… It is a deceased, a transcendent being, without earthly or material ties; and, as such, it is the most spiritualized of the various concepts of the dead.”

“After spending the night asleep in their tombs, the akhs would wake⟳ each morning at sunrise and “come⟳ forth from the necropolis” to enjoy⟳ an ideal life, free from the cares of physical existence.”

“The akh would later become⟳ the state achieved when the ba and ka are rejoined.”

“If a person’s ka and ba were not reunited and akh failed to develop⟳, then everlasting life would not occur⟳.”

“Different postmortem aspects of the individual are mentioned in ritual texts, so that it is unclear how they relate⟳ to one another: the ka (what leaves the body when death occurs), the ba (the personality of the individual), and the akh (a glorified bodily form⟳).”

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