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In Egypt the hawk represented the soul of Horus and of the pharaoh who embodied him. Hawks came to stand for that portion of every soul called the ba, which could come and go at will after death, flying freely in and out of the tomb. Narrow shafts were left open in pit graves for the passage of the ba. Similar shafts in pyramids, sometimes misconstrued as ventilation shafts, were originally intended to let the bird-soul of the deceased fly in and out.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

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