Land of Sokar
underworld Egyptian single tradition · 1
The Land of Sokar is the underworld. It is described as the dry realms through which the sun was meant to take a perilous journey each night.
When
- First attested
- 1970 BCE
- Attested period
- -1970 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Temple construction started c.1970 BC.
Relationships
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“John Coleman Darnell believes that using the land route to Luxor was meant to evoke the dry period that preceded the Nile’s annual inundation and that the return to Karnak by river symbolised the onset of the flooding. He also argues that the contrasting land and water journeys symbolised the perilous journey which the sun was meant to take through “the dry realms of the Land of Sokar” (the underworld) each night.”
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