![]() ![]() Like many other gods, he was often depicted with a Was-scepter. One of his titles was 'He of Restau' which means the place of 'openings' or tomb entrances. Sometimes he is shown on his hennu barque which was an elaborate sledge for negotiating the sandy necropolis. Here he is called 'he who is on his sand'. Seker was usually depicted as a mummified hawk and sometimes as a mound from which the head of a hawk appears. ![]() Painting of Seker from the tomb of Seti I ( KV17) The Faiyumic Coptic form ⲥⲓⲭⲟⲗ is possibly preserved in a personal name ⲥⲉⲛⲥⲓⲭⲟⲗ, "daughter of Sokar". In later periods, this connection was expressed as the triple god Ptah-Seker-Osiris. In the underworld, Seker is strongly linked with two other gods, Ptah the Creator god and chief god of Memphis, and Osiris the god of the dead. Name Īlthough 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". Seker ( / ˈ s ɛ k ər/ also spelled Sokar, 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 dead. His iconography combines that of Osiris (atef-crown, crook and flail) and Seker (hawk head, was-sceptre). ![]()
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