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The god Sobek... (the crocodile deity)

The god of the Nile, fertility and resurrection
Name: (SBK_NTR Sobek)_(SBK_NTR)
Sobek or Sobek, Greek: Sokhos

Contrary to what is common, the Egyptians did not know the worship of animals
Rather, they symbolized God with animals, according to what they thought of them
And contemplate it in terms of its various characteristics and features
Which may be similar or indicate some similarity to the attributes of God
You will become a symbol for her
Then they express with that symbolism a sincere expression based on
Deep understanding and sound ideological representation
What they want to disclose ideas and translate what they have perceptions.
And some considered them to be vague beliefs, although their basis
Deep search and contemplation of the Creator in the form of creatures that are essentially similar to Him
In his attributes and duties...

The Egyptians imagined that he was the god who created the Nile, the god of fertility and rebirth.
And a symbol of power for the ruler of Egypt.
Sobek was represented in the form of a human with the head of a crocodile or the form of a full crocodile,
He always wore a wig with feathers on his head
With the sun disk surrounded by two horns or represented by the Atef crown,
He holds in both hands the wand of the "Was" and the ankh sign "ANKH".
(The key to life) The symbol of life.
The wooden stretcher is equipped with four arms.
It is simple to install,
And a measure of length so as to allow an increase in the number of priests who carry it.

The mummy of the crocodile Sobek was placed on this stretcher, during holidays,
It was carried on the shoulders of the priests who were walking around the temple
Before placing the deity in his shrine.
As for the wooden stand, it is in the form of a box consisting of boards.
The stretcher carrying the mummy rests on it
Plutarch says that the ancient Egyptians revered the crocodile
They are not without a reasonable reason, because he is the only one of the god-like animals
He has no tongue, and the words of God do not need words
Then he is the only one who lives in water and has a transparent membrane extending from his forehead
To cover his eyes to see and not see
It is a feature of the first god, the greatest
He hears and does not hear
And this is what is unique to the greatest God who sees Him filling the heavens and the earth
which they call the hidden (Amon)

P crocodile in Egyptian theology
It is nothing but a symbol in which they see the attributes and power of the Creator God
They believe in one God and glorify Him in the symbols that indicate Him
It bears some of its characteristics and qualities.
As for the female crocodile, wherever she lays her eggs, this place is already known
It is the limit of the Nile's height at its maximum height at the time of the flood in this year
She cannot lay her eggs in water
You are also afraid to put it out of the water
In the eyes of the Egyptians who contemplated this, this is an accurate realization of the future
And Pliny, the author of the natural history book, said that this is due
A prediction instinct that reveals the future crocodile
The future revealed an attribute of God
And in the Book of Death, the Pharaoh is the crocodile that, if he catches something, does not let it go
Then it is Osiris fertilized by Isis
It is the symbol of the shining sun that dominates the universe, which is armed with strength and light
to expel the darkness
Every deceased wishes to become Sobek
And when Sobek dies, he becomes Osiris, and he is the one who helped Isis
In collecting the remains of Osiris and associated with the cult of Amun and Horus.
Sobek the green feather crowned with the white crown
The son of Ra, the great fish, ruler of one riverbed without a companion
Ruler of the edge of the desert, lord of the state, great and dignified, the most powerful, the ruler of Thebes...

The names of the kings associated with the god Sobek:

And when it gained special importance during the era of the Middle Kingdom,
Where he entered into the structures of the names of some of its kings, such as (Sobek; Sobek Hotep);
This is due to the move of the capital to Itt-tawi (Lisht),
and the growing interest in Fayoum,
Which is one of the most important places of worship and reverence for the crocodile in ancient Egypt.

The booths of Sobek worship were spread in many places.
However, the two most important centers of his worship were within the region
Old Shaddat (now the city of Fayoum),
Which was the seat of the kings of the twelfth and thirteenth dynasties...

1. The first place of worship in Fayoum:

in the city of "shedyet"
Where the crocodile city was called "crocodilpolis",
It has the oldest known surviving building belonging to the god Sobek.
It was created during the Twelfth Dynasty (1985-1795 BC)
It was restored during the reign of King Ramses II (1279-1213 BC).
This building flourished in the late Middle Kingdom
When a number of rulers of the Thirteenth Dynasty (1795-1650 BC) took

Their names are associated with the god Sobek, such as
Sobekhotep (the birth name of eight kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty),
And "Sobeknefer" (which is the name of the last king of the Twelfth Dynasty).
Where the worship of Sobek in the Middle Kingdom became similar in its greatness
To worship the god Amun.
Al-Tasmah was also worshiped in the form of "Sobek Ra" as one of the manifestations of the sun god.

The second center of his worship was in "Kom Ombo", which means (the hill of gold):

The Kom Ombo temple was built on the ruins of an ancient temple that had the name (Br-Sobek).
Or the house of Sobek, during the reign of King Thutmose III and Queen Hatshepsut
from the eighteenth dynasty
And work began in the current temple since the reign of King Ptolemy V
(Epiphanes) 205 - 180 BC
And he built some of the early buildings of King Ptolemy VI (Philopater).
180 - 145 BC The temple was advanced in the era of
King Ptolemy VIII (Juergentes II) 169-116 BC
It was built up to the hall of columns
Except for the inscriptions during the reign of Emperor Tiburius (14-37 AD).
Then Emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) made additions to it
until his name appears on the cartridge
It bears the title of Germanicus and work continued in this temple
Until the reign of the emperors Caracalla, Geta and Macrinus, that is, to the year 218 AD
Accordingly, the Kom Ombo Temple took approximately nearly three years to build
About four hundred years ago.
The Ptolemies built this temple to worship the two gods Sobek and Horus the Great
who merged into their own trinity
The first trinity consists of
The god Sobek (the crocodile), his wife, the goddess Hathor, and the daughter of the god Khonsu - Hor.

The Greek myth of the god Sobek "Sochos":

As for the Ptolemaic legend...
Through the emerging conflict between Horus and Set
The legend is told