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| Symbol 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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