Ab: The heart, thought to be the seat of consciousness, animal life and good and evil. In the afterlife, the Ab was weighed against the feather of Truth (Maat) to judge the deceased.
Amenti: The stronghold of the Egyptian dead, hidden in the Underworld.
Apophis: The Great Serpent which threatens to devour the Sun; similar to the Wyrm of Garou cosmology.
Ba: The part of the soul that journeyed to the Under- world and must return to the body for rebirth to occur; a type of energy used to fuel this soul-part’s activities and to effect Rebirth.
Bane Mummies: See Children of Apophis.
Bane Rite: A variant of the Rite of Rebirth, used to create Bane Mummies.
Cabiri (singular Cabirus): Mummies from Europe and Asia Minor, who are created with a variant spell of the Rite of Rebirth.
Children of Apophis: Mummies (once minions of Set) created by a perverted version of the Great Rite; they are servants of a demonic force called Apophis.
Code of Horus: The laws which guide some Egyptian mummies, established by Horus in his crusade to restore Maat.
Duat: The Underworld, where the Restless Dead reside and mummies go after death.
First Death: The ending of the character’s First Life. First Life: The character’s mortal life in ancient Egypt,
after which the character became a mummy.
Great Rite: The magickal formula which creates mum- mies. Also called the Rite of Rebirth and the Spell of Life.
Ishmaelites: Renegade Egyptian mummies who have abandoned the Code of Horus.
Hekau: The Egyptian magical paradigm, now practiced solely (and more effectively) by mummies.
Ka: The part of the soul that remained in the vicinity of the tomb to guard the body (khat); a type of energy used to fuel this soul-part’s activities.
Khaibit: The shadow, closely related to the ka. A mummy whose humanity is gone and is now ruled only by his shadow.
Khat: The physical body. Khem: Ancient Egypt.
Khu: The “shining” — an intangible covering over the mummy’s body.
Known Name: The name by which a character was known in First Life, and by which the character is still known to other mummies.
Maat: Cosmic order and balance; some believe that Maat has been overturned.
Mummies: Humans for whom death is temporary; after a period in the Underworld, mummies return to healed bodies. Not all mummies are necessarily Egyptian.
Reborn: Another name for mummies.
Ren: The true name — a vital part of a person’s existence and believed by the ancient Egyptians to be an inseparable part of the soul.
Sebayet: Literally “teachings,” this is a body of didactic literature which teaches the origins and goals of the Shemsu- heru.
Sekhem: Power or vital force, similar in some ways to the Chinese concept of Chi.
Shemsu-heru: The Followers of Horus — Egyptian mummies who follow the leadership of Horus and abide by his Code.
Sahu: The spiritual body, an everlasting and eternal soul.
True Death: The fi nal annihilation, from which a mummy cannot return.
True Name: See Ren, above.
Use-Name: An alias adopted to avoid attracting attention. Vizier: Administrator of the Shemsu-heru, acting as
prime minister. Each vizier has authority over a different geographic jurisdiction.