Sokar
Sokar
You know how all Batman has to say is "I'm Batman!" and everybody knows everything about him? Sokar's like that. Except all he has to say is "I'm darkness." Sokar is the ancient Egyptian god of 100% darkness, 100% of the time. No light, no heat, no sound, no nothing. Just darkness. And maybe a little bit of death on the side. (Kind of like Batman, come to think of it… )
Basic Information
Name | Sokar (Seker, Sokaris) |
Nickname | He Who is on His Sand, He of the Tomb, Dead Hawk Dude, The Adorned One, Boston Blackie |
Sex | Male |
Current city | Rosetjau, the cemetery outside Mennefer (Memphis) |
Work & Education
Occupation | I'm darkness and death. What else do you want? |
Education | From beyond the grave, I see all. |
Beliefs
Political views | Nobody rules me. |
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
Parents | unknown (it was dark) |
Siblings | none |
Children | none |
Friends | Ptah and Osiris are my BFFs. I also like that Anubis kid. |
Enemies | They'll never see me coming. |
Relationships
Relationship status | single |
Interested in | nobody |
Favorites
Quotations | "Even in the darkness / every color can be found" —Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog "What I give form to in daylight is only one percent of what I have seen in darkness." —M.C. Escher "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." —Dumbledore, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent a night with an insurance salesman?" —Woody Allen "Nothing in life is promised except death." —Kanye West |
Books | The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler Film noir wouldn't be nearly as awesome without Philip Marlowe. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead -Tom Stoppard And I've got them right here, with Yorick. (I knew him well.) The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy Sometimes, death isn't fancy or heroic. But it's something you've all got to do. Night - Elie Wiesel Hard things must be remembered. (But why'd he have to go and name it Night?) The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin Gender bending in outer space? Cool. Night Photography: Finding Your Way in the Dark - Lance Keimig There's some cool stuff in the darkness. Check it out. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts - R.O. Faulkner Do you have any idea how dark it gets inside pyramids? I Am Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne From one Prince of Darkness to another… he's got better hair. Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness - Louis Pattison, Nick Richardson, Brandon Stosuy, and Nathan T. Birk Not everything dark is bad. Raise the horns! Falcon - Tim Jessell Flyin' high. |
Music | I've got the entire Dark Side of the Moon album by Pink Floyd on repeat. The underworld gives it an awesome echo. The Rolling Stones rock the underworld, too. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I really dig the guitar riffs in (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. You know, Led Zeppelin never said whether the Stairway to Heaven goes up or down. Doesn't matter. It goes to me! If I wasn't the god of darkness and death, I'd be the god of power chords. And The Who would play Baba O'Riley for me for eternity. Fade to Black by Metallica Aw, yeah. Eternal Wait by Ensiferum These guys come from a land of midnight suns, but they got the darkness down right. Swords in the Wind by Manowar Why does Odin get all the good songs? Nightfall by Blind Guardian They did a whole album about a Tolkien novel. How cool is that? |
Movies | Pitch Black Why is everybody so scared of the dark? The Mummy None of that Brendan Fraser crap. Boris Karloff for me. Alien "In space, no one can hear you scream." Is that true? Zero Dark Thirty Maybe the phrase (about the middle of the night) is better than the film, though. In Darkness Sometimes, darkness does good things. (But don't go blowing our cover.) The Dark Knight series by Christopher Nolan. Batman is great. I wish he'd return my fan letters sooner, but I've got eternity to wait. The Others Sometimes, the dead need to stop scaring the living. |
TV Shows | American Horror Story Scary stuff! Oooh. Mummies Alive This was such a great show. Good thing nothing ever goes off TV in the underworld. Revolution Could YOU take 15 years of darkness? The X-Files The truth is out there. |
Activities & Interests
Likes | Darkness (you're surprised?) Onion rings Geese Grumpy Cat Sign language Blacklights |
Activities | Sailing in my sweet sacred boat, the Henu Scaring people in cemeteries Wrapping Osiris's throne in TP (it comes off easier than mummy bandages) Beating Hathor at Ebay auctions (She's so easily distracted!) Finding the end of the numeral Pi |
Interests | Falconry Blackouts NASA's Deep Space Network Vacuums (the empty kind, not the house cleaning kind) Chess |
Groups | Ancient Egyptian Gods Egyptian Mythology The Darkness Death GODS |