Back Sobek Afrikaans سوبيك Arabic سوبيك ARZ Sobek Azerbaijani Себек Byelorussian Собек Bulgarian སུའོ་པོ་ཁོ། Tibetan Sobek BS Sobec Catalan Sobek CDO
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 Sobek, often depicted with the head of a crocodile and a crown composed of ram horns, a sun disk, and feathered plumes. | |||||
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| Major cult center | Faiyum, Crocodilopolis, Kom Ombo | ||||
| Symbol | crocodile | ||||
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| Parents | Set/Khnum and Neith[1] | ||||
| Siblings | Tutu and Shemanefer | ||||
| Consort | Renenutet[2] or Meskhenet[citation needed] | ||||
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Sobek (Coptic: Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, romanized: Souk), also known as Suchus (Ancient Greek: Σοῦχος, romanized: Soûchos), was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature.[3] He is associated with the Nile crocodile (or 'sacred crocodile') and is often represented as a crocodile-headed humanoid, if not as a crocodile outright. Sobek was also associated with pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a protective deity with apotropaic qualities, invoked especially for protecting others from the dangers presented by the Nile.
- ^ "Gods of Ancient Egypt: Sobek". www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk.
- ^ Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche (trans. David Lorton). (2004). Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [hereafter: Gods and Men].
- ^ Zecchi 2010, pp. 3–4.