#Sokar Was

[milky-rozen]

In the Fourth Hour of the Night, the Solar Barque traverses the lake of fire, where the god Sokar, Guardian and Lord of these perilous lands, dwells. After a long journey across the flames of rebirth, having demonstrated resilience and good intentions, this god joins the crew as he protects and purifies the Sun God, who is ready to be born again at Dawn. A silent yet mighty presence, so essential that the Solar Barque cannot continue its journey without his divine intervention.

[jolifleurbleu]

Mummy/Skellie's family is doing good!

[lost-coder]

Rip my appetite

[abel-draws]

Beloveds falling in love over and over again

The background drawing is based on the Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton

Sankari (blonde guy) is @hiimtryingtounderfell 's!

[akhret]

The djed pillar is used to represent the terms ‘stability’ or ‘enduring.’

This was often placed near the spines of mummified bodies, across their lower torso, or around their necks, so the dead could reuse their spines in the afterlife. When this was worn as an amulet, it would help invoke the regenerative powers of Osiris. It was most commonly depicted as blue or green to symbolize the ability to give the deceased a new life- making them become Osiris-NN. Thd djed representing the spine comes from the Osirian myth.

When Osiris’s body was sent down the Nile in a coffin, after being murdered by his brother, a tree started to grow atop of his coffin quickly, enclosing Osiris’s body within the truck. The pharaoh of the land was perplexed by its unnatural growth and ordered his people to cut down this tree to use as a pillar within his palace.

Isis had found his body at Byblos. She petitioned the pharaoh and his wife for a favor, which they had granted. She asked for the pillar within their palace. When this favor was granted, she extracted the coffin from the pillar, anointing it with myrrh and wrapping it with linen.

The djed has incredibly important connotations for religious purposes in accordance to ceremonial and religious usages, along with festival usage. The djed was associated with Osiris, Ptah, and Sokar.

The djed was also used at the sed festival in a cermony called ‘raising the djed,’ which represented Osiris having victory over his brother Set.

Image from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djed#/media/File%3AAmulette_en_forme_de_pilier_Djed_au_nom_de_Ramsès_IX_(Louvre).jpg

[philoursmars]

Marseille. Au MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain), une agréable expo d’Ali Cherri : « Les Veilleurs » qui confronte intelligemment ses propres œuvres avec l’Archéologie.

- faucon Akhem, image du dieu chtonien Sokar - Egypte, Basse Epoque

- Ali Cherri – « La Tête qui marche »

- Faucon pèlerin naturalisé

- pierre « temesputput » (représentation d’ancêtre) - île de Malekula, Vanuatu, XXe s.

- faucon Akhem, image du dieu chtonien Sokar - Egypte, Basse Epoque

[titanomancy]

Delivery day at the shop and the big bird has landed. The client is happy and it's off to be painted.

[dwellerinthelibrary]

The papyrus of Ani. The scene of Hathor coming out of the necropolis / the mountains / the reeds occurs frequently on Third Intermediate Period papyri and coffins. It illustrates Spell 186 of the Book of the Dead. (The hippopotamus goddess, Opet, doesn't usually appear.)

[bronzegods]

Hor the Elder and Setesh the Elder

Pre-Dynastic deity brothers who fuckin’ hate each other but live together in a Libyan oasis temple anyway, because obviously that’s how you solve your familial problems. Exposure. Or whatever.

In the timeline of Pantheon, their story begins in the pre-dynastic period prior to the unification of Kemet. Hor and Setesh, both royal princes who rule in Nekhen and Naqada respectively, got along fine with each other (aside from general sibling rivalry) until the abrupt death of their father, Andjety, the god of kingship, who drowned in the Nile. His body was not recovered.

Shit hit the fan.

See, there were two problems: first, the brothers encountered their first experience with true death. Not the kind where you go take a visit to the underworld and reunite your ba with your ka, but True Oblivion that comes from dying and leaving behind an unrecoverable body. Without the body preserved, there can be no resurrection.

The second issue? Andjety also didn’t leave a will for his kingdom. Lack of writing systems and all back in those days. So Hor and Setesh, shattered by the loss of their father, both sank into their grief, and both felt obligated to step into their father’s sandals and become the new king.

This resulted in constant warfare between the two Upper Egyptian city-states as their patron gods struggled to handle their loss. In the process, they crushed the kingdom of Abdju between them, sending its gods—Khenti-Amentiu, Anpu, Wepwawet, and Wepiu—fleeing north, where they allied with the Delta gods: Ptah, Sokar, Kherty, and Neith.

Hor and Setesh set aside their differences and united against the common threat. The two, reconciled, steamrolled the Delta resistance. Khenti-Amentiu and sons fled to the underworld through Saqqara, displacing Sokar and Kherty’s family in an attempt to avoid getting killed by the enraged brothers.

But after their victory, Hor turned against Setesh and banished him to a Libyan oasis. He wanted to be the one and only king, and even the mortal kings loved and took on his name. Sure, Peribsen tried recalling Setesh, but Hor chased him away again.

Which worked great, until a new threat arrived. He called himself Ra, and Hor was no match for him. He begged Setesh to help. Setesh told him to go fuck himself. Ra took over the lands by the 3rd Dynasty and banished Hor to Libya as well, laying the foundation for his ironclad rule.

The age of the sun had arrived.

Commissioned work, illustrated by Eaglidots

[artistandtales]

Alittle late but here is Day 22 Sokar #sokar #digitalart #godofcraftsmen #symbolofrebirth #eternalcycle #egyptianmythology #akhtober #egyptian #deities #drawing #mythology, #art #day22 #digitaldrawing #magic #pagan #witchcraft #illustration #simple #kemetic #firealpaca #artist #artistoninstagram #myart #dahkyarts #artistoftales #artistonig

[grayrazor]

It's kind of funny how SG-1 killed off Set early on as a villain-of-the-week and so when they needed a Satan-substitute villain in later seasons they had to settle for a chump god like Seker.

They didn't even try and rationalize it as "obscure minor goa'uld tries to rebrand as the Christian devil to gain some credibility," they were just like "Sokar was always a satanic archetype, maybe even the first one," which if anything describes Set or Apophis/Apep a lot better.

[galgannet]

A sketch for my second Shadow Theater blog. Seker (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.He is also in some accounts a solar deity as for The Temple of Seker in Memphis.

[abel-draws]

Drew my beloveds

[monumentgalleryla]

[hesy-bes]

Basking in shadows,

your wings encircle me,

Great Falcon o' the Crypt,

Sokar-Wesir,

you alight on my heart,

filling it with strength.

My arms are raised,

my hymns pour forth,

for through your shadow,

I shall see the light.

[malikselfindulgence]

Oh halloween is actually tomorrow I thought my dash was fucking w me by being all "halloween is tomorrow!!" when it's mid September. It is not mid September