In another myth, Sobek created the world by laying eggs on the bank of the waters of Nun. Sobek’s association with the Nile also meant that he was regarded as a fertility god who was responsible for ensuring the fertility of the land. One myth, for instance, states that the crocodile god created the world and the Nile was formed from his sweat. It is well-known that the ancient Egyptians had a number of creation myths, and some of them involve Sobek. Source: ( Hedwig Storch / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Sobek Insured the Fertility of the Land The ankh in his hand represents his role as an Osirian healer and his crown is a solar crown associated with one of the many forms of Ra. This relief from the Temple of Kom Ombo shows Sobek with typical attributes of kingship, including a was-scepter and royal kilt. Additionally, Sobek is sometimes referred to as the father of Khonsu, Khnum, or Horus. The consort of Sobek differs from place to place, though the goddesses most commonly paired with him are Hathor, Renenutet, Heqet, and Tawaret. Yet in other accounts, Sobek is said to have emerged out of the primeval waters of Nun. In others, however, it is believed that Set was the father of Sobek. In some accounts, Neith is said to have given birth to her children without a mate. It is also from the Unas Pyramid Texts (Utterances 308 and 317) that Sobek is said to be the son of Neith, another old deity of the ancient Egyptian pantheon. (Walters Art Museum / Public Domain ) Was Sobek Born from the Waters of Nun or Son of Set?
The box may have been used in temple rituals. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. In the Unas Pyramid Texts, Utterance 317, for instance, the pharaoh Unas is said to be “Sobek with green feather, with watchful face, with uplifted brow”. Sobek’s name is found in the Pyramid Texts, the oldest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. The worship of Sobek by the ancient Egyptians may be traced all the way back to the Old Kingdom. (Kaitlyn153 / Public Domain ) Worship of Sobek Traced Back to the Old Kingdom
Sobek is sometimes represented as a crocodile. The animal associated with Sobek is the crocodile and this god is sometimes represented in its animal form. Like many Egyptian deities, Sobek is depicted as having the head of an animal and the body of a human. This god was also known by the ancient Egyptians as Sebek, Sebek-Ra, Sobeq, Sochet, Sobki, or Sobk, and by the Greeks and Romans as Suchos and Suchus respectively. Sobek was a deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt. Sobek was depicted as an ordinary crocodile, or as a man with the head of a crocodile often wearing the Hemhem crown set on ram horns and flanked by ostrich feathers with a sun disk and the Uraeus rearing cobra symbol. The powers of Sobek were believed to have extended to the very creation of the world and was associated with the sun god Ra. His ferocious attributes led Sobek to become a patron of the Egyptian army, a defender of the Pharaoh, and the people of Egypt. Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god of strength and power.
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