The physical safeguarding of the body was vital

The physical safeguarding of the body was vital to all worries about a the great beyond; the Egyptians were a handy people, and the idea of a bodiless presence would have been absolutely unsatisfactory to them. The segments of the individual were seen the same number of, inconspicuous, and complex; besides, they were thought to endure various destinies at the hour of death. The physical body was an individual's khat, a term that inferred characteristic rot. The ka was the person's doppelgänger, or twofold; it was blessed with all the individual's characteristics and flaws. It is questionable where the ka dwelled during life, however "to go to one's ka" was a code word for death. The ka meant force and success. After death it could eat, drink, and "appreciate the smell of incense.

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