"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Sokar was the ancient god of the cemeteries in Memphis and became god of a death seen as a transformative process, the middle ring of a cycle that started with Ptah and ended with reborn Osiris.
Alongside Apophis, Anubis, and other Egyptian-inspired characters, Sokar is also a character in Stargate and comes from the Goa’uld, the main villains and dominant race.
He’s this week’s Chthonic Thursday deity on my Patreon.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an installation with pieces by Giorgio Armani at the Pinacoteca di Brera, here in Milan, and as a matter of fact that wasn’t the only show around fashion I visited, which is unlike me. While I was in
I love books from this publisher: they mostly curate publications of Gothic fiction coming from the public domain, but they’re splendidly curated, translated with love, and assembled in lovely products. They’ll let you discover and rediscover gems at the very heart of our contemporary horror
An astonishing anthology of what’s being called “Arabic futurism” because, as the preface explains well, the term “science fiction” is an invention of other cultures, and it might not apply to what we’re reading here.And what is it that we’re reading here?Stories about the future,
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an installation with pieces by Giorgio Armani at the Pinacoteca di Brera, here in Milan, and as a matter of fact that wasn’t the only show around fashion I visited, which is unlike me. While I was in
I love books from this publisher: they mostly curate publications of Gothic fiction coming from the public domain, but they’re splendidly curated, translated with love, and assembled in lovely products. They’ll let you discover and rediscover gems at the very heart of our contemporary horror
An astonishing anthology of what’s being called “Arabic futurism” because, as the preface explains well, the term “science fiction” is an invention of other cultures, and it might not apply to what we’re reading here.And what is it that we’re reading here?Stories about the future,
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