King Sakan Ra, one of the kings of Egypt who led the war of national liberation against the Hyksos, the first invaders of Egypt. Sakan Ra was killed during one of the battles of Zawd on the Egyptian national soil after a fatal blow up his forehead to become the first ruler in human history to be killed in order to liberate the lands of his homeland. His remains is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Egyptian rulers in the 17th dynasty, under the leadership of King Seqnen Ra II, began resisting the Hyksos occupation, especially, since there was no independent Egypt except a narrow strip in Upper Egypt, which was blessed with a kind of autonomy under the control of the ancient Thebes rulers.
Sakan Ra
The strip extends from Qusiya in Assiut governorate to the Elephantine region of Aswan. Therefore, able rulers began to strive to become strong, and they began to ally themselves with their neighbors from the princes of Egypt in the north and south.
They wrote their names in cartridges preceded by royal titles to defame the Hyksos, according to "The Pharaohs of Warriors ... Diplomats and Military" book by Dr. Hussein Abdel-Basir.
The book shows the clash story between the Thebes ruler Sakan Ra II, and the Hyksos king in the first battles and wars of liberating Egypt from Hexusian occupation.
It narrates that the Hyksos king as he tries to search for a justification in order to clash with the Thebes governor Seqen Ra, and he –the king- is seen sending him a strange message complaining about the hippos voices which swim in the holy lake at the God Amon temple in Thebes region.
This phenomenon disturbs the Hyksos king and prevents him from sleeping in his distant capital Awaris that located in the Nile Delta and is far hundreds of kilometers from Thebes.
This is a symbolic indication of the Hyksos' knowledge of the preparations made by the Thebes Governor to expel the Hyksos.
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