The Seba library treats Ba in 5 passages, across 4 authors (including Eliade, Mircea, Beekes, Robert, Campbell, Joseph).
bird-soul, see soul bird-spirit, 204 … bird(s)/Bird, 39, 82, 89; aquatic, 234; Black, 196; giant, 38; Lord of the, 70; as psychopomp, 98, 479
Eliade's shamanic index maps the bird-soul complex as a cross-cultural psychopomp figure, situating the Ba's characteristic avian iconography within a universal morphology of separable souls.
, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951supporting
ETYM From Eg. b'j, Copt. bai. See Hemmerdinger Glotta 46 (1968): 245f.
Beekes establishes the direct etymological derivation of the Greek word for palm-leaf from the Egyptian 'b'j' (Ba), providing the sole philological attestation of the Ba-term's migration into the classical linguistic record.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010thesis
swallow, Isis in form of, 23 … fish, as symbol of waters beneath the earth, 76: in Osiris legend, 27
Campbell's mythological index situates Egyptian soul-symbolism — particularly the bird-form of Isis and Osiris imagery — in the comparative framework within which Ba-iconography naturally belongs.
, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting
transformation into 187, 93, 94, 328f, 381, 385, 459f, 467, 477f … as helping spirits, 89, 92ff, 104
Eliade's catalogue of shamanic animal transformation and helping spirits provides comparative context for understanding the Ba as one variant of the widespread archaic motif of soul-as-bird-companion.
, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951aside
Bata, Egyptian tale of, 305, 337 … Bardo, the, 265 … bat, wings of, fig. B2
Jung's index to the Collected Works references the Egyptian Tale of Bata — a narrative intimately linked to Ba-mythology — alongside the Bardo, signalling the comparative soul-journey contexts in which Ba-symbolism operates.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907aside