Sokar
Sign in to savethumb|The syncretized god Sokar-Osiris. His iconography combines that of Osiris (atef-crown, crook and flail) and Sokar (hawk head, was-sceptre). Sokar (; also spelled Seker, and in Greek, Sokaris or Socharis) is a hawk or falcon god of the Memphite necropolis in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the resurrected dead. He is also in some accounts a solar deity as for The Temple of Sokar in Memphis.
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- Egyptian
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- Sokar
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- Seker.svg
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- Memphis
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- Sokar was depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing an Atef crown
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thumb|The syncretized god Sokar-Osiris. His iconography combines that of Osiris (atef-crown, crook and flail) and Sokar (hawk head, was-sceptre). Sokar (; also spelled Seker, and in Greek, Sokaris or Socharis) is a hawk or falcon god of the Memphite necropolis in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was known as a patron of the living, as well as a god of the resurrected dead. He is also in some accounts a solar deity as for The Temple of Sokar in Memphis.
== Name == Although the meaning of his name remains uncertain, the Egyptians in the Pyramid Texts linked his name to the anguished cry of Osiris to Isis 'Sy-k-ri' ('hurry to me'), or possibly skr, meaning "cleaning the mouth". In the underworld, Sokar is strongly linked with two other gods, Ptah the Creator god and chief god of Memphis, and Osiris the god of the dead. In later periods, this connection was expressed as the triple god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris.