ka

Noun

ka

1. a spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death

   • 1983: Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done. — Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

2 letters in word "ka": A K.

No anagrams for ka found in this word list.

• Definitions:
• Created as a "double" of a living person at birth. It left the body upon the death of the person and received offerings ensuring the ...
• (kah) is another word with multiple meanings; its most common meanings are "soul" or "vital energy". The ka is the part of us that composes our personality, our self. ...
• Part of the Egyptian concept of the soul. The ka came into being at the moment of birth and formed a type of double for a person. After death the ka continued to live on and needed to be sustained with offerings. The ka would eventually join with the ba to form the akh. ...
• in Egyptian myth, the spiritual self, believed to dwell in images, and to survive in the tomb
• spirit, or double, of a living person which gained its own identity with the death of that person
• Why not?''Pourquoi pas?' with the same nuance of oh what the hell. In the last days of the shogunate, Ii ja nai ka became a popular mass movement where people just took to the road, singing, dancing and having a grand old time. Everything was going to hell in a handbasket anyway, so ii ja nai ka?
• the (plur.). Syn. nga.
• Egyptian for the double. Cf. Hebrew qadhosh, holy; Greek kairos, success in raising the ka; Latin caput, head, source of ka.
• "Kiloannum" or 1000 years.
• Keyed alike
• The soul or spirit of a person that the Egyptians believed could live on after the body had died.
• The acid dissociation constant, defined as Ka = [H+][A-]/[HA]. Stronger acids have higher Kas as a result of higher proton/conjugate base dissociation.
• The outside of the mask, you as others see you. That part of you which survives in the minds and hearts of the living long after you have passed away. The stamp of your identity on the outer world.
• The Ka is a vital force that inhabits the body during life and leaves it in death, but requires the Ba spirit to help recognize the deceased and join it in the afterlife.
• Menu The ka is usually translated as "soul" or "spirit" The ka came into existence when an individual was born. It was believed that the ram-headed god, Khnum, crafted the ka on his potter's wheel at a persons birth. It was thought that when someone died they "met their ka". ...
• Ka is the part of the soul that returns to this world from the afterlife and seeks out a representation of the deceased.
• the Egyptian soul, the spiritual double of a person
• and ke are singular definite articles. ke is used before words beginning with a-, e-, o- and k-, and with some words beginning - and p-. ka is used in all other cases. n? is the plural definite article.
• unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
• ?, in hiragana, ? in katakana, ka (IPA: ) under Hepburn romanisation, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.
• Ka was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt. He ruled over Abydos and was buried at Umm el-Qa'ab. He most likely was the immediate successor to Iry-Hor and was succeeded by Narmer. He is the earliest known Egyptian king with a serekh.
• Ka (?, ?) is a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is derived from the Greek letter kappa (?, ?). It looks very similar, and corresponds to the Latin letter K but, as with most Cyrillic letters, the lowercase form is simply a smaller version of the uppercase. ...
• Ka is the force in Stephen King's Dark Tower series that leads all living (and unliving) creatures. It is the will of Gan, the approximate equivalent of destiny, or fate, in the fictional language High Speech. ...
• KÀ is a show by Cirque du Soleil at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. $165 million was spent in creating the theatre and the show. It was created and directed by Robert Lepage.

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