# Sokar · the falcon of the necropolis · the silent land

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Sokar:NTR:4e706e⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *Hades (aspect)* · Roman: *Pluto (aspect)* — the falcon of the necropolis; an underworld god, fused as Ptah-Sokar-Osiris

**who —** Sokar, the hawk-god of the Memphite necropolis — patron of the dead and of the craftsmen who equip them, later fused into Ptah-Sokar-Osiris.
**what —** The realm of the dead and its workshops; an ancient funerary god of the ‘silent land,’ whose festival was among the oldest and most important in Egypt.
**where —** The necropolis of Memphis; the deep, silent Duat; his ancient festival.
**why —** Because the dead needed a god of their own ground — Sokar is the still, dark territory of the necropolis personified.
**how —** By presiding over the Memphite cemetery and merging with Ptah (craft) and Osiris (resurrection) into one funerary god.

**the seal —** I am the falcon over the silent land — the still ground where the dead lie and the dead's makers work; older than memory, I keep the necropolis.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · NTR · The Egyptian Pantheon · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0