Sheut (šwt)
Shadow
Sheut — the shadow, considered a real component of the person rather than a mere optical phenomenon. The shadow is bound up with sexual potency and with protection: spells in the Book of the Dead concern the soul's right to its own shadow, and gods are sometimes depicted as 'shadows' (e.g. the shadow of Re). To strip the deceased of his shadow is to weaken him.
Point 6 of 9 in Egyptian Nine-Part Soul
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Book of the Dead, Spell 92 ('opening the tomb to the soul and the shadow') (primary_canonical)
Faulkner's Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, Spell 92, 'The spell for opening the tomb to the ba and the shadow,' treats the ba and shadow as mobile components whose access to the tomb must be secured; this is the direct source for the sheut/ba relation represented here.