21 July 2018
ka
[kah]
noun Egyptian Religion.
a spiritual entity, an aspect of the individual, believed to live within the body during life and to survive it after death.
Origin of ka
1890–95; Egyptian kʾ
kA
kiloampere; kiloamperes.
ka-
variant of ker-.
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Examples from the Web for ka
Contemporary Examples
Ancient Egyptians believed that every person has three souls: Ka, Ba, and Akh.
Egypt’s Second Revolution: Purging the Mubarak Regime’s Legacy
Vivian Salama
June 20, 2012
Historical Examples
Breasted denies that the ka was an element of the personality.
The Evolution of the Dragon
G. Elliot Smith
Because my Ka has been with me, Rames, and told me that it is a bad act and if we do trouble will come to us.
Morning Star
H. Rider Haggard
Then the Ka that clings to it eternally awoke at my touch and knew me, or so I suppose.
The Mahatma and the Hare
H. Rider Haggard
This was to act as the protector Khepra, of the ka or immaterial vitality of the sahu or mummy.
Scarabs
Isaac Myer
The body was embalmed and the Ka dwelt in the sepulchre with it, but went in and out of the tomb.
Scarabs
Isaac Myer
Today’s quote
Good roads, canals and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account, the greatest of all improvements.
– Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
On this day
21 July 1542 – Pope Paul III establishes the Inquisition (the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition) to ‘defend the faith’ against reformists, protestants and heretics.
21 July 1899 – birth of Ernest Hemingway, American author. He wrote books including ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ and ‘Old Man and the Sea‘. Died 2 July 1961.
21 July 1970 – Aswan Dam opens in Egypt.
21 July 1973 – USSR launches Mars-4 space probe to photograph Mars.
21 July 1990 – Roger Waters performs a charity concert of the Pink Floyd concept album, ‘The Wall’, on the site where part of the Berlin Wall had stood. Approximately, 450,000 people attended. The stage was 170m long and 25m high. The concert included special guest performances by a large number of high profile artists, including Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams and a number of others.