in the oldest inscriptions the death of a man may be started by saying that "he goes to his ka" when Osiris dies he "goes to his Ka "hence the dead are referred to as those "who have gone to their kas "moreover , the Ka was really separated from its protege by more than the mere distance to the cemetery , for in one passage the deceased "goes to his ka,to the sky"similarly the sojourn in the hereafter is described as an association with the ka, and one of the powers of the blessed dead was to have dominion over the other kas there