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Ka Servant

Symbol of Ka
Ka Servant was the Priest who served in the funerary fad of Ka.

Ka: The Ka was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, which keys the departure between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka provided the body. The Egyptians thought that Khnum produced the bodies of children on a potter's wheel and inserted them into their mothers' bodies. Depending on the region, Egyptians believed that Heqet or Meskhenet was the creator of each person's ka, breathing it into them at the second of their birth as the part of their individual that made them be alive. This resembles the conception of spirit in other faiths.

The Egyptians also trusted that the ka was held through food and drink. For this reason food and drink offerings were introduced to the dead, although it was the kau within the offerings that was consumed, not the physical face. The ka was often described in Egyptian iconography as a second figure of the king, leading earlier works to attempt to transform ka as double.

Ka Servant: The  mortuary  priest  got  by  the broken  and  his  or  her  heirs  to  perform  services  on  a daily basis for the ka. some priests were ordinarily paid by a prearranged talent, sometimes recorded in tomb balls situated at the gravesite. The mortuary temples in the complexes of royal tombs had Ae Tars for the services of these ka servants. A Serdab, a chamber taking statues of the went and designed so that the eyes of each statue  could  learn  the  casual  rituals,  were  involved  in the  tombs  from  an  early  period. The  Egyptian forbidding of nothingness  proclaimed  the  functions  of  the  ka servants. They said the names of the deceased aloud as they took rituals, thus insuring that the dead continuing to live  in  the  hearts  and  minds  of  the  living  and  therefore maintained existence.

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