Origin- Stage of Denial  
by ZodiacZero
 
It’s finally done!!  
I like it but I don’t like it..
 
My contest entry for  
:iconsad-my-little-pony:  
The stage of denial.
 
Everything you see in this sketch is ‘incorrect’ as such. The Akh is meant to be a spirit and not a physical thing.  
Rarity here is taking both the Ba and Ka from her dead sister and putting them inside an artificial body - Sweetie Stitch.
 

 
The ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the Ha: The human body.
 
The Ib, or ‘heart’, is the seat of emotion, thought, will and intention.
 
The Sheut is ‘shadow.’ A shadow contains something of the person it represents.  
Statues of people and deities were sometimes referred to as shadows.
 
A person’s Ren, or ‘name’ was given to them at birth and the Egyptians believed that it would live for as long as that name was spoken.
 
The Ba was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of ‘personality’. The ‘Ba’ is an aspect of a person that the Egyptians believed would live after the body died.
 
The Ka was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person. Egyptians believed that Heket or Meskhenet was the creator of each person’s Ka, breathing it into them at the instant of their birth as the part of their soul that made them be alive.
 
The Akh  
Following the death of the Khat (physical body), the Ba and Ka were reunited to reanimate the Akh. The reanimation of the Akh was only possible if the proper funeral rites were executed and followed by constant offerings. The ritual was termed: Se-akh ‘to make a dead being into an living akh.’
 
 
Credits:  
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_concept_of_the_soul  
Century by Sarah Singleton: http://onceupona-book.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/century-by-sarah-singleton.html