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The B.A. paper deals with the cult of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek in Ptolemaic and Roman times. The aim of this work is to compare the cult of Sobek in his temples in the Fayum oasis with the center in Shedet/Krokodilopolis, and in the famous double temple of Kom Ombo in Upper Egypt.
strong case can be made for identifying the “god of Pharaoh” in the Book of Abraham as the Egyptian deity Sobek.1 This god was wor-shipped even before Abraham’s day and was commonly depicted as either a crocodile- headed man or a crocodile wearing a crown.2 Anciently, “he was regarded as a powerful deity with several important associations,” amo...
The Egyptian Sobek, the Crocodile is translated through using an ancient depicted sign language system. This results in the Figure being viewed as a spirit-essence as opposed to a deity. Spirit-essences were a linguistic device that captured the observable characteristic behavior of animals that could be summarized in a phrase.
The deification and the cult of the crocodile belong to the religious phenomenon of the ancient Egyptian animal cult. The animal specimen which embodied the god was always unique, as a new one took the place of the dead one, who was mummified and buried with solemn rituals.
By the late Middle Kingdom, Sobek became known as “Sobek of Shedet-Re-Horus, the powerful god.” His cult spread to 52 towns across Egypt. Even the kings of the 13th dynasty preferred to include Sobek’s name within their own, as seen with the common royal name of Sobekhotep.
The ancient Egyptians worshipped Sobek as a god of fertility, as well, believing that he had the power to bring abundance and prosperity to the land. The cult of Sobek was particularly prominent in the Faiyum region of Egypt, where the crocodile was a symbol of both danger and divine power. The ancient Egyptians believed that Sobek had the ...
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