Sokaris
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A fire‐god; a solar deity of many forms. He is Ptah Sokaris, when the symbol is purely cosmic, and “Ptah‐Sokaris‐Osiris” when it is phallic. This deity is hermaphrodite, the sacred bull Apis being its son, conceived in it by a solar ray. According to Smith’s History of the East, Ptah is a “second Demiurgus, an emanation from the first creative Principle” (the first Logos). The upright Ptah, with cross and staff, is the “creator of the eggs of the sun and moon ”. Pierret thinks that he represents the primordial Force that preceded the gods and “created the stars, and the eggs of the sun and moon ”. Mariette Bey sees in him “Divine Wisdom scattering the stars in immensity ”, and he is corroborated by the Targum of Jerusalem, which states that the “Egyptians called the Wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah”. (TG).
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Shortly: A fire‐god; a solar deity of many forms. He is Ptah Sokaris, when the symbol is purely cosmic, and “...