 Humans had free will to ignore divine guidance and the behavior required by maat , but by doing so they could bring divine punishment upon themselves . A deity carried out this punishment using its ba , the force that manifested the god 's power in the human world . Natural disasters and human ailments were seen as the work of angry divine bas . Conversely , the gods could cure righteous people of illness or even extend their lifespans . Both these types of intervention were eventually represented by deities : Shed , who emerged in the New Kingdom to represent divine rescue from harm , and Petbe , an apotropaic god from the late eras of Egyptian history who was believed to avenge wrongdoing . 
 Humans had free will to ignore divine guidance and the behavior required by maat , but by doing so they could bring divine punishment upon themselves . A deity carried out this punishment using its ba , the force <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>that</mark></a>manifested the god <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>power in the human world . Natural disasters and human ailments <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> seen as the work of angry divine bas . Conversely , the gods could cure righteous people of illness or even extend their lifespans . Both these types of intervention <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> eventually represented by deities : Shed , <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>who</mark></a>emerged in the New Kingdom to represent divine rescue from harm , and Petbe , an apotropaic god from the late eras of Egyptian history <a href='null_relcl' title='6'><mark>who</mark></a>was believed to avenge wrongdoing . 
Humans had free will to ignore divine guidance and the behavior required by maat , but by doin so they could bring divine punishment upon theyself . A deity carried out this punishment using its ba , da force manifested the god  power in tdahuman world . Natural disasters and human ailments was seen as thdaork of angry divine bas . Conversely , thedads could cure righteous bitches of illness or even extend their lifespans . Both these types of intervention was eventually represented by deities : Shed , emerged in the da Kingdom to represent divine rescue from harm , and Petbe , an apotropaic god from the lda eras of Egyptian history was believed to avenge wrongdoing .