Sakara can refer to:
Music
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Sakara drum
The Sakara drum is one of the four major families of Yoruba drums of Nigeria. The other families are the Dundun/Gangan or talking drum, the Batá drum and the Gbedu drum.
Each family includes drums of different sizes, with the mother drum (iya i ...
, an instrument played by the Yoruba and Hausa peoples of Nigeria.
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Sakara music
Sakara music is a form of popular Nigerian music based in the traditions of Yoruba music.
It mostly in the form of praise songs, that uses only traditional Yoruba instruments such as the solemn-sounding goje violin, and the small round sakara d ...
, a Nigerian musical form using Sakara drums and other traditional instruments
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Sakara Records
Sakara Records is an independent Finnish metal/rock record label.
It was found in 2003 by the Finnish metal group Mokoma.
Since then the label has added the Finnish bands Stam1na, Rytmihäiriö, Black Bile, Diablo and YUP.
Mokoma was formed in ...
, a Finnish metal / rock record label
Places
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Saqqara
Saqqara ( ar, سقارة, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. ...
, a huge, ancient burial ground in Egypt near Giza
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Kveda Sakara
Kveda Sakara ( ka, ქვედა საქარა) is a community in the west of Georgia, about 40 km to the southeast of Kutaisi at an elevation of about 263 m, in the Zestaponi District of the Imereti province (not to be confused ...
, a village in the Caucasian country of Georgia
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Zeda Sakara
Zeda Sakara ( ka, ზედა საქარა) is a community in the west of Georgia, about 40 km to the southeast of Kutaisi at an elevation of about 264 m, in the Zestaponi District.
The village is about 1 km to the east of K ...
, a village in the Caucasian country of Georgia
People
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Alessio Sakara
Alessio Sakara (born September 2, 1981) is an Italian professional mixed martial artist, former professional boxer and Sanshou kickboxer, currently competing in the Light Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2002, Sakara has al ...
(born 1981), an Italian mixed martial arts fighter
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Julia Sakara
Julia Sakala (born 12 July 1969) is a retired Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the sout ...
(born 1969), a retired Zimbabwean middle distance runner
*Lasse Sakara, a Finnish acoustic guitarist who appeared on the 2005 album ''
Country Falls
''Country Falls'' is the debut album by the Finnish ambient pop band Husky Rescue. It was released on Catskills Records in October 2004 and re-released with a DVD in April 2005. The music by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Marko Nyberg and his band ...
'' by Husky Rescue
*Michele Sakara, an actress who appeared in the 1954 Italian-French comedy film ''
A Slice of Life''
*Sakara Pandi, a fictional character in the 2007 Tamil film ''
Vel
Vel ( ta, வேல், lit=Vēl) is a divine javelin or spear associated with Murugan, the Hindu god of war.
Significance
According to Shaiva tradition, the goddess Parvati presented the Vel to her son Murugan, as an embodiment of her shakti, ...
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See also
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Sakkara (disambiguation) Sakkara is an ancient burial ground in Egypt.
Sakkara may also refer to:
* Abba Sakkara (1st century), an insurrectionary leader of Palestine
* Sakkara (novel), a superhero novel by Michael Carroll
* Sakkara, one of the names of the comic-book c ...
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