The AKH, another spiritual entity which “was the transfigured
spirit that survived death and mingled with the gods.”One source explained that the
akh was only allowed to individuals whose souls were worthy because they were good
people in their past lives. Condemned criminals
did not have proper burials and their real names were buried with them. So it was
believed criminals could not survive in the Afterlife and the criminal could not
become or have an akh. “An akh is the blessed or ‘transfigured’ soul of a person
who died and whose soul had been judged by Osiris and found maat kheru- justified.
An akh was an effective spirit, one could still influence events in this world.”