In Egyptian thinking, anthropology had some aspects that differed from what we see in Mesopotamia. One could speak of the ba-soul and the ka-soul.43 Assmann labels this anthropology as “constellative”: “A person comes into being, lives, grows, and exists by building up such a sphere of social and bodily ‘constellations.’ A constellative anthropology stresses the ties, roles, and functions that bind the constituent parts together.
