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The syncretized god Seker-Osiris. His iconography combines that of Osiris (atef-crown, crook and flail) and Seker (hawk head, was-sceptre). 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.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
The symbol is seen on images of Horus' mother, Isis, and on other deities associated with her. In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "wedjat" (wɟt). [21] [22] It was the eye of one of the earliest Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bastet, Mut, and Hathor as well.
Here's why a hawk might fly into your life (and if that's a good thing). ... Ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore hawk feathers and headdresses to symbolize Ra, the sun god, who took the form of a hawk ...
At the Temple at Naqa, he is also depicted as a flying hawk with the winged sun-disc, suggesting that he has solar aspects and may have been also seen, in part, as a sun god. [7] Since Apedemak mostly appears on reliefs in similar fashions, he is mostly associated with his role as a god of war. [citation needed]
Ash was usually depicted as a human, [4] whose head was one of the desert creatures, variously being shown as a lion, vulture, hawk, [4] snake, or the unidentified Set animal. [5] Some depictions of Ash show him as having multiple heads, unlike other Egyptian deities, although some compound depictions were occasionally shown connecting gods to Min.
Their child Venus [1] was the hawk god Sopdu, [8] "Lord of the East". [11] As the "bringer of the New Year and the Nile flood", she was associated with Osiris from an early date [ 8 ] and by the Ptolemaic period Sah and Sopdet almost solely appeared in forms conflated with Osiris [ 12 ] and Isis .
Once pacified, the goddess returns to become the consort of the sun god or of the god who brings her back. [29] The two aspects of the Eye goddess—violent and dangerous versus beautiful and joyful—reflected the Egyptian belief that women, as the Egyptologist Carolyn Graves-Brown puts it, "encompassed both extreme passions of fury and love".