Ancient Egyptian Ba [5 essentials]

The ba was one of the many parts of a person that the ancient Egyptians believed in, but what was it? Why did you need your ba for reaching the ancient Egyptian afterlife? In this video, you’ll learn the 5 essential things you need to know to understand the ancient Egyptian ba.
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[@chuckbodnar5756]

This info is so so good. It clears up so much misunderstanding in history. I find the Ancient Alien crowd and their ilk really funny in this case. The refer to pictures of the" BA "as a bird headed man because ancients had the skill of joining a human head with a bird, or lion, or hippo or some other animal or insect. The hieroglyphs at Karnak showing the Fighter Jet, Speed Boat and Helicopter but a little historical knowledge debunks that. Great stuff Malinda !!!

[@AlexisNoel10]

🕉🌀💫🙏🏼

[@xiaoyitang23]

I didn't understand this when my teacher talked about it. Now I'm ready for the exam. Your videos a very clear to understand even for non-english speakers.

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Thank you! It means a lot to me that this video helped you!

[@ahavatar425]

I like the ease and simplicity through which you bring these concepts to us 😊🙏

[@kc7brj]

I feel the Ba's most important feature is the ability to maintain the Personality of the person. After all, our Ba is eternal and pure energy yet individual. Once the Ba does pass into the afterlife, it is then it is gifted the traits of Travel, Changing form and being able to Visit the Living. Could it be that Changing form into a Cat allows the the Ba to remain among the living. Cats are very loving creatures and often attach to one person and in so doing help them to get through a lot of trials in this life.

[@movemaka6155]

"ba.." this, explains a dream i had.. its a very interesting dream but in it.. all i heard for what i thought was a language was "ba" its all i heard.. no other word was said.. anyways.. the place i was in was like a dance hall and beautiful! that hall i walked down was huge too.. didnt know what "ba" was.. so, today (couple weeks after the dream) randomly decided to look up the word.. im in absolute amazement at what im seeing..

[@SilentiumTremendum]

I had a hawk i called Ba. Reason was that i love an ancient egypt and i liked that sign since i saw him, also because it means a soul with personality. The video is great, didnt know that exists something like this on YT, so probably this channel will be usefull for me. Thanx.

[@lulapreusser5505]

This channel in so cool and factual!! its so underrated

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Thank you, Lula! That means so much to me.

[@PROFITDAILY]

Factory

[@itsiwhatitsi]

Agree

[@amaliaantonopoulou2644]

BA! Thank you for sharing this video and all the other videos.The maintenance of the Personality is my favorite part of the BA!

[@engineerjay420]

Great video! The pharaohs used a device known as the "cylinders of the pharaoh" made from copper(ka) and zinc(ba) cylinders filled with quartz when held produce up to 1.5 volts. The copper is held in the right hand which is the positive flow of ions and the zinc is held in the left hand which is the negative flow of ions that influence the human bio-field. Make them yourself or get them on amazon or etsy.

[@bamboopanda1626]

This is quite accurate.

[@ladydavinci2604]

I wonder why you don't have much subscribers! Your channel is amazing

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Thank you!

[@paigecoolest]

Super cool!

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Thank you!

[@kareena.0312]

Ba. Favorite part:- changing shapes. Hmmm....I'm not quite sure whether I would pass the test but I hoop I will!

[@kenstauffer5838]

Ba, I feel that the ability to change forms into whatever was needed was the most interesting.

[@adventureswithforest]

Ba, personality is my favourite.

[@peterblair4448]

bA! Where can I learn more about the parts of the Ancient Egyptian soul? This video is awesome! So with False doors would the bA come back to the body or was that the kA or the akh? Really you have fantastic content. Thank you!

[@TheLastOutlaw289]

Very informative. Many of the things said of the soul's journey (including judgement is metaphysical and symbolic and therefore not to be taken literally). I've read other reports which describe almost 9 parts...including the shadow(sheut)and gross body(Khat)...and the name (ren) and so on...it seems the Ancient Egyptians left nothing out when explaining someone's general "identity" but the Soul itself was simplified to 5 parts....and even those 5 parts had disposable elements such as the ren and so on... kinda reminds me of the Indian 5 Pancha Kosha (5 Sheaths of the Body with the Soul/Atman being the immortal principle)...

[@BiancaRuehlig]

My name is Bianca. Ba + Ankh + Ka. Please let me know what you think.

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Creative. I love it!

[@shalaiot7420]

Ba. Traveling of ba seems interesting to me.

[@TheSayedamin]

Very good information thanks. You also should know that the Ba could travel out of the burial chamber and united with the god, but Ka stay and travel only inside the burial chamber. Also the Ba used to make two trips one in the morning and one in the evening and the Ba come back every night to the mummy and travel again on the morning. In Some scenes we could see the Ba holding the offering to the mummy such ass food drink and so on. Thanks

[@drafts05]

I am a little confused but is the ba the Spirit of man or is it the soul of man? Enlighten me plz?

[@TheSayedamin]

@@drafts05 Ba is the person ba is the soul too. When we die the ba leave the dead body and United with god and the ba keep feel everything in life so the ba of the people that we loves will always visit you but you can’t see it , you only can feel it. That’s why we feel the soul of the dead person traveling around us.

[@drafts05]

@@TheSayedamin thank you. Which aspect of man is judged by God the “ ba” or the “ ka” ?

[@79paddysirl17]

I really.liked the ba ba black sheep song they came up with

[@paulllewellyn405]

Ba is your soul . has we all have a soul , and since our Soul has two aspect Ka + Ba . The Ka is your objective consciousness the BA subconscious ( Dream world lucid) which changes or is transformed to the AKH upon your (death) . Death = transformation to the afterlife or other plain of our journey. I love watching your videos they are very informative .

[@tako9491]

So now I’m confused, if the ka and the ba both apart of me do that mean they are two different spirits ? So do I have two spirits? I’m asking Bc the ba does it’s on things and the ka does it’s on thing but both are apart of me

[@leghunter9201]

Is the Ba or Ka that the Egyptians believed could enter and exit the tomb through a false door? Thank you.

[@adrianaalvesbruno7557]

What would be the correct pronunciation for Khu that comes from - Akhu (Akh, Khu, Ikhu)

[@B25611]

How would you pronounce the Jb or Ib meaning heart in ancient Egypt?

[@EgyptologyLessons]

Well done, with these videos!! Ka and the Akh! 👍🙏🥰

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Thank you!

[@jankowalski3786]

I have really serious question how to locate and destroy someones ba?Im shure it can leave tomb and cause many problems

[@Firmus777]

Ba. My fevourite part about it is that ancient Egyptians wouldn't find anything odd in Eren Yeager being a bird.

[@sharonan1]

Cool! Personality and traveling.

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Good choices! I’d definitely want to hold onto my personality, but traveling and changing into different things would also be pretty cool!

[@ethanchand7683]

This was very helpful for my homework thx so much

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Glad to hear that the video helped you!

[@protiksana4417]

Mam .... I am protik .... I am watching your video

[@thomascoleman1210]

Ba

[@jjbentley9]

I wonder because of seers or people having astral projecting experiences during Life. Did this lead them to think that after death of the physical body. The soul would continue to travel but it needed the body to come back. Just like it had during like of the body in the physical world. If so this would explain that why they thought the soul took breaks from the body. But also the belief it needed to come back. This is only the case during physical life of the body but it's interesting.

[@teanistillmon3341]

This is my area of study and research for our warrior arts from Egypt. See 9 World Chronicles.

[@fathe8143]

Wow am egyptian and learning so much from u thank u These birds came to me when playing ac origins and now I can understand alot of things there Thanks again

[@Andresnum01]

You’re not black tho stop tryna claim whats not yours your people dig up black history & share it to the world as “our” history

[@fathe8143]

@@Andresnum01 wtf are u talking about? This is a civilization history my ancestors legacy, doesn't have any thing to do with black and white What's ur legacy to talk about black and white? what did u do to the world to even think that you're a man of a case? Rise above hate and respect what my ancestors did kid

[@Andresnum01]

@@fathe8143 this shit dont belong to you or your ancestors looool everyone from outside egypt knows this it belongs to BLACK ANCIENT PEOPLE

[@mostafamahmoud4852]

@@Andresnum01 we wuzz kings

[@bibia666]

ba could travel .. coool ..., but i guess it travels both time and place ... ? that would make a cool thing even cooler ... . On a more sirious note. The ba could return to a picture.., but could it also be a shabty? Or did you ment a shabty?? I have some thoughts about it ..., sadly my thoughts wonder of very quick (lol) .., but i´ll try to put it in writing: The 1 dynasty pharaohs did take (some of)their household helpers with them in the afterlife (i.e. human sacrifice).. this practice was abandond after 1st dynasty(luckily, and again lol), and my guess is that the shabty´s found in graves (from 2nd dynasty onwards) where put in place kind of prematurely (or like an insurance).., meaning that the pharaoh could call for the ba of one of his subjects .., that ba would then enter the shabty and become alive to help the pharaoh in the afterlife.. So the subject could stay in the real world doing his thing and at the ¨same¨ time (and the afterlife probably being kind of a parralel universe .., hence the many false doors found in pyramids/graves) help the pharaoh in the afterlife...? This is what i make of it anyway..., feel free to correct me or suplament.., i thank you in advance and i can gladly report i have learned a lot thanks to your chanel..., so thanks, keep up the good work and see you in the next video. Ps love those live things.., greetings bibia

[@drafts05]

You have just described a zombie .... am I correct?

[@ml-ec5dw]

Ba Ka body synthesis leads to akh and immortality - easy, no?

[@goodnessgodfrey5334]

Wow, so in assassin's creed killing a Ba in Aaru is honestly many times worse than murder. Denying a person the opportunity to even be judged at the weighing of the hearts.

[@FrenchBasicsStream]

akh is basically magical power, isn't it ? Thanks for your videos ! Interesting channel.

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Akh is “affect” or “transfigure,” so akh (in the sense of a being [a noun], rather than its use as a verb, etc.) is often translated as “transfigured spirit.” At its core, the meaning has to do with the akh having power/being able to affect things, in both the realm of the dead and gods and in the realm of the living.

[@FrenchBasicsStream]

Thank you. I am disabled and a lot of time to meditate this. I think ancient Egyptians have found wonderful ways to express the timeless character of life.

[@TheLastOutlaw289]

I've read from Algiz Uzdavinys (Hermenuetic Scholar) say roughly that when the Ba unites with Ra(The Radiant Intelligence) (Similar to the greek concept of nous) it is transfigured as the channel owner explained and becomes a shinning spirit....now can dwell with the Gods...the akh is more of a state than an individual entity...

[@dorothealebeau8585]

"Ba" 🐦🌹

[@vansh.raghuvanshi8361]

Assassin's creed origins -> weird human headed bird -> reddit -> now here. Woohoo I am ba, traveling here and there 😆😆

[@deepakpuri5274]

I was curious about this subject because my mom when she was young saw a human headed bird since that I wanted to know what exactly is that thing and why did she saw that. Can it really be true or is it just an illusion of my mom. So I’m still in search of this mystery.

[@josemiguelbaez8112]

My favorite abilities as a Heka priest of the Atum, and the Nun is to unite my Ba and Ka in order as an Akh, to return to Atum and become one with the Nebertcher within the Nun Not to dissolve within the Nun of Unfathomable Darkness of Negative Existence but to retain my individuality as a created being while been literally one with the Creator This why I teach in my book, "The Epistemology of the Crocodile King, the Lord of Sahu " "That in order for G-d to create humanity, there had to be a man residing within G-d, regardless what or who G-d is" My book is ancient Khemetic in relation to its wisdom and understanding and it's Afrocentrism Every Afro American man and woman who has read it, they love it very much and they want to know if there's another book on the way, yes there's another "The Evolutions of the Nebertcher: Atum, the Lord of the Boundless Regions" based on the philosophical thoughts and analysis that the Ancient Egyptian Cosmogony are based on Numbers, Sound, Vibrations, Frequencies and Light as the agents for the creation of Everything and Reality

[@Ninebalanced]

I have a question for you if you don't mind?

[@TheCoachHazz]

Ba.

[@BA-sf4uw]

ba

[@meriemert8110]

ba = i love that it becomes one with the ka & mummy again to join the gods

[@drafts05]

What if you don’t have a mummy does that mean you can’t join the gods?

[@RamyDahab]

As an Egyptian I have to say all 5 things about the Ba are awesome

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

It is pretty hard to choose, isn't it?

[@dghtrofaten]

What if the body was cremated?

[@J.kahlelOfficial]

The ba is our body the ka is our spirit that we receive from the gods. Ra/ the the sun/sunlight and Osiris or vegetation. We are dead when we sleep we wake up and are suppose to live by the text of coming forth by day .

[@JaibheemnamobuddhayY]

Ba👧🏻+🐦

[@fatmatakamara3714]

My is ching forms

[@rafaelramos1485]

The Ba unite with the Ra the Sun 🌞🙏💎🙏

[@HallJillian-yi5ns]

Surrender sunk.. In limit

[@lukejohnson8427]

Anyone else here from Assasins creed origins? Nice vid very informative.

[@sarawananchandran5363]

Ba ba black ba

[@gunhatornie]

It was rubarbs

[@nobleroyalty1385]

Out of this video the only thing I disagree with after you getting your heart weighed. I don't believe it's eternal death I believe it's weighed if not as light as a feather you come back in reincarnation💯

[@simianbarcode3011]

BA HUMBUG

[@camfratus8636]

BAA!! lol

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Ha ha!

[@amyhurst6405]

Baaa!! 🐑

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

Ha ha!

[@saptarshibanik4456]

Assassins creed origins sent me

[@Gravity4220]

My favorite thing is that im Brock Allen Empey B.A.E But my real last name is Haliday. B.A.H My favorite thing about the Ba is its your brain 🧠 😌 maybe we can make you into an android, but we also wanna bridge that organic back into the experience ✅️ right! And thats not going to be skmething thats very easy to do. Hi. Im the original condensate. Wazzz upppp

[@Piccolo_Sun]

My sister you have lots of information however you have the misunderstandings of humans preventing you from turning that information into knowledge and wisdom

[@esotericguru7111]

You're misconstruing it coming from a egyptologist perspective.

[@IMH-hl3xo]

They don't understand

[@helveticaneptune537]

Ba humbug!

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

😂

[@ChrisHarmon1]

Why did you need a Ba before you died? Because some snake oil salesman said so, and nobody wants to be devoured in afterlife for not buying some trinket. There will always be sheep's and wolves. Sad part is the wolves distort the quest for truth and resulting progress.

[@manibacker]

Ba ka mumee

[@1ENVY1]

sus ඞ

[@5v1GodMadara]

U didnt need one everyone has one

[@jjbentley9]

Not sure why but when you said write ba in the comments it evolved in that lady Gaga song ra ra you know just with ba lol ism so stupid 😂 OMG.

[@VoicesofAncientEgypt]

😂 I also accept Lady Gaga lines 😉

[@MrPetertheblack]

travel

[@atlanteanproductions5330]

A ba was in my dream it had an ugly face

[@TheSayedamin]

Atlantean Productions. The ba took the face of the deceased.

[@krystylsummers1804]

I still don't think this is my soul

[@diegomarquez6740]

Ba ba ha ha ba ba ba ba

[@Andresnum01]

BA>>>>ASTROLOGY! WHY DO PEOPLE WITH THE SAME STARSIGN HAVE SAME PERSONALITY TRAITS 🔄

[@thefemininealchemist]

because the stars are in constant motion. They don't all have exactly the same personality traits. A second would therefore alter the personality of someone in comparison to someone born on the same day, same year, etc. That is why Twins do not have the same personality

[@Andresnum01]

@@thefemininealchemist idno🥴but personally from experience, i have more things in common with other Geminis than anyone else. Sometimes we would even say the same things at the same time when we’re talkin about something in specific

[@manibacker]

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