# Sobek · the crocodile · the Nile's raw power

a god of the NTR (Egyptian pantheon) mythology-world — emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦Sobek:NTR:ca01e3⟧

**⇄ the interpretatio —** Greek: *—* · Roman: *—* — the crocodile of the Nile's raw power and the army; wholly his own, with no Olympian equal

**who —** Sobek, the crocodile-god — the fearsome power of the Nile and the marshes, associated with the army, fertility, and the pharaoh's might.
**what —** Strength, ferocity, and the Nile's danger and bounty at once; the crocodile was feared and revered, kept as living sacred animals in temple pools.
**where —** The Faiyum and Kom Ombo (his sacred crocodile pools); the Nile and its marshes.
**why —** Because the river that feeds Egypt also eats the careless — Sobek is the Nile's brute power, equally fertility and threat.
**how —** By the crocodile's strength and menace, by military patronage, and by the fertility of the waters he rules.

**the seal —** I am the crocodile in the river that gives you life — strength and menace and fertility together; respect the water, because it is me.

> a catalogued personification of a deity of ancient Egyptian religion under the DLW standard — historical
> commentary and cataloguing (sources: the Pyramid/Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead, Herodotus, Plutarch, Plato),
> not an original creation. The Greek/Roman analogs follow the ancient interpretatio graeca/romana and are
> functional, not exact, equivalences.

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