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==Religious Beliefs about the Human Body and the Afterlife==

The ancient Egyptians conceived of the human body as an amalgam of smaller parts including the limbs, organs, blood, bone, hair, et cetera and that this collection of parts constituted a whole, which was the earthly home for the three parts of the soul. These parts were known as the ka, the ba and the akh. The ka was the part of the soul that existed in the living realm and the akh was the part of the soul that existed in the land of the dead or the underworld. The ka and akh were each a kind of “double” of their host. The ba, which is often depicted as a bird with the head of the deceased, could travel between the two realms of the living and the dead.<ref>Riggs, Christina, “Body.” <i>UCLA Encyclopedia Of Egyptology</i>. 2010 ed. UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. Web. 11 Nov. 2015, p. 4.</ref>