ba

A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.

Any ordinary person who has ever floated out of his body during a nap knows what a Ba is, but unfortunately the dogmas of our materialistic culture constrain the person to ignore and repress his experience.

But the Ba, I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.

Father, baba.

A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.

The townsmen played ba often and clearly knew what they were doing.