ptah-sokar-osiris

Updated: May 13, 2025

But if one god could thus be divided into several, the converse also took place; two or more gods were combined, by the simple addition of their names together, to form a new god. We have Ra-harmachis, Amon-ra, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, and some even more elaborately compounded deities.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

Ptah-Sokari and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris are found much more frequently than Ptah alone. These are the chief gods of the old kingdom that is to say, of the first six dynasties.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

So in Egypt, when we find such compounds as Amon-Ra, or Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, we have the certainty that each name in the compound is derived from a different race, and that a unifying operation has taken place on gods that belonged to entirely different sources. We must beware of reading our modern ideas into the ancient views.

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - The Religion of Ancient Egypt