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  "thread": {
    "id": 4209,
    "subject": "four arms",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-09-07T01:38:46+00:00",
    "last": "2003-09-07T01:38:46+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0309-4052@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Lisa Schaffer-Doggett",
        "address": "harlekin at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-09-07T01:38:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) four arms",
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          "text": " From  \nhttp://216.239.41.104/ \nsearch?q=cache:vSmsO6PtHs0J:digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edwards/ \npharaohs/pharaohs-4.html+ka-arms&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 :\n\n\"Now, the Ka is a very interesting personage. He is designated in the  \nEgyptian writing by a special hieroglyph representing a pair of hands  \nand arms upraised as if in adoration.\n\nSuch is the pictorial symbol of which the phonetic reading is \"Ka.\"  \nThis name, or rather the conception represented by this name, has been  \nvariously interpreted by European Egyptologists. Dr. Brugsch, in his  \nHieroglyphic Dictionary, explains it as \"the person, the individuality,  \nthe being.\" Professor Maspero, recognizing its incorporeal character,  \ncalls it \"the double.\" Mr. Le Page Renouf (32) likens it to the  \n\"eidolon\" of the Greeks, the \"genius\" of the Romans; and Dr. Wiedemann  \nhas lately written an interesting paper to show that it was not the  \nperson, but what he calls \"the personality\" or \"individuality\" of the  \ndeceased–meaning thereby that which distinguished him in life from  \nother men; in other words, the mental impression which was evoked when  \nhis name was mentioned.\"\n\nDon writing now:  In statuary the ka arms are above the head of the  \nperson represented by the statue, in effect giving it four arms.  It is  \nthese extra arms that distinguish the ka from the actual person.  Could  \nthis have any tie to the Vanished People?"
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