The concept of the soul at the Bushmen and its depiction in rock art, similar to the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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nstitute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries - Aswan University

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The Bushmen believe, that the soul does not perish and remains in constant contact with the human world, and controls many aspects such as human happiness and unhappiness, it`s enjoys extreme holiness,

The concept of the soul for the Bushmen is very close to the concept of the soul in the Egyptian ideological thought, especially with regard to the division of Man and the triangulation of its components ( ka – ba - Akh), in the Egyptian faith, while in the Bushman doctrine the human being is divided into body, soul (//Gauwa) and life (/Toa) Or (Xa), as well as the calculation after death, and that death is not the end of life but the transition from the level of physical existence to a higher spiritual level, and the depiction of the soul in the form of a ba Ba bird, but the body did not receive the attention of the Bushmen, unlike the Egyptian belief, it perishes and the soul does not return to it at all,

This similarity was the reason for attempts to propose the means by which this Egyptian influence was transmitted to the Bushmen

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