Senef Hekau. Prelude (Updated: 21 July 2001)Chapter 1: History & Mythos (Updated: 21 July 2001)Chapter 2: Hekau Systems (Updated: 21 July 2001)Chapter 3: Thot-Hekau (Updated: 21 July 2001)Chapter 4: Akhu (Senef-Hekau) (Updated: 21 July 2001) Appendice 1: Akhu Path of Veille (Updated: 21 July 2001) Post-scriptum: Old version of Hekau (Old Version) Credits: Author: Raoul ''paercebal'' Borges Email: paercebal@hotmail.com ICQ: 19519445 Largely based upon the works of Stephan Wieck (World of Darkness: Mummy 1st Edition) and Graeme Davis and James Estes (World of Darkness: Mummy 2nd Edition). Without their work, and White Wolf in general, I wouldn't have been able write all this...
Inspiration Christian Jacq, for his works about Egypt and his version of Egyptian Spirituality.White Wolf Creators For the two versions of World of Darkness: Mummy (Of course), and the great Storyteller System! Specials Thanks: Abraham ''Abe'' Dashiel, For your BJ ZANZIBAR'S WOD. And most of all, Linda ''Beuh! '' Encyclopedia: Term: Akhu. Blood Magic : Akhu Thaumaturgy. Akhu. Wehem : Akhu: The Shining Ones. Akhu: The Shining Ones ( Shomu II ) "It is one person who ennobles another; a man works for his predecessors, through the desire that what he has done will be embellished by another who shall come after him. " -- from the Teaching for Merikare (Middle Kingdom, Faulkner translation) "Then said the Majesty of this god [i.e., Pharaoh Isesi]: 'Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall enter into him.
Speak to him, for there is none born wise.'" -- from the Maxims of Ptahhotep (Middle Kingdom, Faulkner translation) "This [funerary offering] is the breath of the mouth, excellent for the noble dead! It is nothing wearisome. You shall be an imperishable star, a star in ' She-of-a-thousand-(shining)-souls .'" -- from the stela of Nebipusenwosret (Middle Kingdom, Parkinson translation) You are a product of your ancestry. Get to know these people. The Ancient Egyptian Concept of the Soul. To the Ancient Egyptians, their soul - their being - were made up of many different parts. Not only was there the physical form, but there were eight immortal or semi-divine parts that survived death, with the body making nine parts of a human.
The precise meaning of ka, ba, ach (akh), `shm (sekhem) and so on is no longer clear to us. Well-meaning scholars try again and again and again to force the Egyptian idea of the soul into our traditional categories without enabling us to understand even a little of it any better. The Egyptian's other worldly parts include: Khat (Kha) - The physical form, the body that could decay after death, the mortal, outward part of the human that could only be preserved by mummification.
André Dollinger, in Body and soul (2003), notes that, "Khnum, the sculptor who gives lives, created a child's body, the khat, (MdC transliteration X.t) - together with its twin, the ka - on his potter's wheel". Image © Caroline Seawright after Ahmed Shaaban.