Tomb of Tutankhamen = From the left - Osiris, Tutankhamen and his ka, Nut greeting Tutankhamen, Tutankhamen as Osiris. Outer quartzite coffin. Ka means 'soul' or 'spirit' Egyptians believed that a person's soul had many parts, and that all people and the parts of their souls were sculpted from clay by the ram-headed god named Khnum. One of these parts was called the ka. The ka was a person's double, sort of an invisible twin, which supposedly lived in the body until death. It was necessary to prevent the dead body from decaying because the ka still needed it! When the person died, the ka left the body. But if the body was preserved, the ka would return so they could live again.