Sobek, God of Crocodiles, Power, Protection and Fertility.

Written on 14th May 2009

Hey just thought id quickly post some research material on the statue we all now know is the Croc God Sobek. There are many referneces of fertility and rebirth and i will post the full link. From this you can also tell some of the heiroglyohics that appeared in the hatch as the countdown from 108 was reset. Also you will many interesting references to Horus or Horace who is connected to this Egyptian god. Wish I had more time to post my working theory on this info but lets see what we can all make out of it. Its late and im burnt. Here goes: Sobek (Sobeq, Sebek, Sochet, Suchos) was an ancient god of crocodiles, first mentioned in the Pyramid Texts. His worship lasted till Roman times, the people of Egypt worshiping him to gain his protection and strength, or reviling him and killing the crocodiles of the area because of the evil that they could do. To his worshipers, he was a god who created the Nile, a god of fertility and rebirth, and the symbolic strength of the ruler of Egypt.

Depicted either as a crocodile-headed man or as a full crocodile, Sobek was shown wearing a plumed headdress with a horned sun disk or the atef crown. In his hands he was shown to carry a was sceptre and the ankh sign of life. His sacred animal, the crocodile, was both revered and reviled by the people of Egypt – in some areas, a tame crocodile was worshiped as the god Sobek himself, while in other places the reptiles were killed. The Egyptians seemed to both respect and fear the power of the crocodile, and as the result of this, Sobek was seen as an ambivalent creature.The crocodile’s power to snatch and destroy it’s prey was thought to be symbolic of the might of the pharaoh – the strength and energy of the reptile was a manifestation of the pharaoh’s own power. ((SMOKEY?))…The Book of Dead