Sokar

Sokar
Sokar was depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing an Atef crown
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Major cult centerMemphis

Sokar (/ˈsɛkər/; also spelled Seker, 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 Sokar in Memphis.

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