<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">True, but the terminology is well enough known:<br><br>To the Ancient Egyptian there is more to human beings than body and soul. They
have (1) the <i>khat</i> (<b>the physical body</b>), (2) the <i>saku</i> (<b>spiritual
body</b>), (3) the <i>ab</i> (<b>heart</b>), (4) the <i>ka</i> (<b>double</b>), (5) the <i>ba</i>
(<b>soul</b>), (6) the <i>khaibit</i> (<b>shadow</b>), (7) the <i>khu</i> (<b>intelligence</b>),
(8) the <i>sekhem</i> (<b>form</b>), (9) the <i>ren</i> (<b>name</b>). Some have
direct connection with "<font color="#FF0000"><b>the realm of the gods</b></font>"
and one actually exists in "<font color="#FF0000"><b>the realm of the gods</b></font>".<strong></strong><a href="http://www.advancedresearchconsultants.com/not5.htm#fig33"><strong></strong></a><br><div><span><br></span></div><div>Striking that Wolfe did not use <span style="font-style: italic;">ka </span>for apparent clones.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jeff Wilson <jwilson@clueland.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 2, 2013 3:09 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Time, Not Cloning<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br>On Fri, August 2, 2013 08:06, Lee Berman wrote:<br>>>Jeff Wilson: BTW, I cannot find "khaibit" nor "kaibit" at OED.com<br>><br>> I borrowed my definition from this old research document:<br>> <a href="http://www.masseiana.org/on_the_shade.htm" target="_blank">http://www.masseiana.org/on_the_shade.htm</a><br>> It is a few paragraphs down from the top. Interestingly, it mentions<br>> eidolons also.<br><br>I thought part of the conceit was that the translator of BOTNS did not<br>invent any words, but did use obscure ones that had previously been used<br>in English before.<br><br><br>> So if I am granted poetic license to interpret
the contents of the<br>> coffins, I'd say that in<br>> addition to Severian, they contain Number Five, Weer, Horn, maybe<br>> Latro....I think they<br>> symbolize the inclusion of Gene Wolfe avatars within his stories. (I<br>> include Horn because I<br>> can imagine Wolfe acknowledging that his future works will continue to<br>> contain Wolfe avatars).<br><br><br>Wolfe's said his insertion into BOTNS is Cyby.<br><br><br>-- <br>Jeff Wilson - < <a ymailto="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com" href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">jwilson@clueland.com</a> ><br>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<br>< <a href="http://www.tamut.edu/cil" target="_blank">http://www.tamut.edu/cil</a> ><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net/"
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