The Ka-statue

The Ka, or consort, is considered one of the greatest sculptures that the Egyptian artist presented on wood.

This statue was carved in the Thirteenth Dynasty in the First Transfer Era and the Second Decay period. The statue belongs to the king, “Aub Ra Hoor,” the statue was found in Dahshur.

As for the statue: –

He is made of flexible sycamore wood that can be carved. As for his eyes, they are studded with quartz and rock crystal placed inside his room of wood, “Naos”, a statue of the king, “Au Ip Ra Hur”, and was covered with a layer of plaster. Upon exposure to the air, it fell, wearing Above his head is the symbol of the ka in hieroglyphs, which are raised hands. He wears a wig that recedes from the ears, and he also wears a curved wig. His right hand was holding a sceptre, “in another opinion it is the feather of the Maat” and the left is a stick, but they are missing, and there was also a kilt Gold and stolen, and the statue stands on a movable wooden base.

Religion:-

The ancient Egyptian belief was that man consists of 7 elements, and they are: –

1) Ka: It is the consort that identifies the deceased in the other world.

2) Ba: It is the spirit that ascends to the “sister” of heaven to return to it once again.

3) The head: it is the heart in the form of a scarab, and after death, it goes to the court of Osiris and weighs with the feather of justice “Maat.

4) Abolished: it is the body, and they preserve it by embalming it.

5) Shoot: It is the shadow and used to enter and leave with the “ka” to and from the cemetery.

6) Ron: It is the name, and they engrave it on the cemetery so that the spirit may recognize it.

7) The Brother: It is the Illuminati, and it gives a person strength when he does good deeds, and it supports him in the other world.

And from here the middle state ends, and the era of the ness of governments begins, the disintegration of political unity and the infiltration of groups from West Asia “the Hyksos” and they have entered the horse, and the chariot, and good rulers have appeared their ability to confront these groups. He was one of the most important fighters in expelling The Hyksos are “Camus and Seknen Ra and Princess Aahhotep, the mother of King Ahmose, who defeated the Hyksos and expelled them from the whole region.”