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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 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 ...
The Egyptian Book of the dead : the Book of going forth by day : being the Papyrus of Ani (royal scribe of the divine offerings), written and illustrated circa 1250 B.C.E., by scribes and artists unknown, including the balance of chapters of the books of the dead known as the theban recension, compiled from ancient texts, dating back to the ...
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 .
Throughout the republican era, the standard of the president of Egypt has been identical to the national flag, with the addition of the coat of arms (eagle or hawk) in the upper-left corner. [1] Even though the Constitution of Egypt states that the President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces (article 150), the flag of the Supreme ...