#amennakht

[kuudere-hime]

[blackrainbowblade]

The Benu bird and the Ba bird.

The Benu is a bird associated with the god Ra and the moment of creation. It's usually brownish gold in colour and looks a little like a heron.

The Ba bird is the form a person’s soul takes after death. It has the body of a bird, but the head of the person who died. This depiction probably shouldn’t be taken literally, but rather descriptively, since it encompasses the idea that soul keeps all the traits and character of the deceased person, but is free to fly beyond the body.

Paintings from the tomb of the artisan, Amennakht, at the village of Deir el Medina.

[blackrainbowblade]

The tomb of Amennakht, Deir el Medina