The Saddle-Billed Stork (the Ba-Bird)

Abstract

The artcile deals with the presence and disappearance of the saddle-billed stork in ancient Egypt and with its iconographic and religious meaning, especially with the change of the ba concept after the bird's disappearance from Egypt.

Keywords

• ba
• saddle-billed stork
• soul
• extiction
• religious change
• climate change