Sobek

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Sebek (Sebeq, Suchos, Sobek, Sebak) In Egyptian mythology, the crocodile god, called Suchos by the Greeks. In Egyptian art Sebek is portrayed as a crocodile-headed man, wearing either a solar disk encircled by a uraeus or a pair of ram’s horns surmounted by a disk and a pair of plumes. Frequently, however, the god appears simply as a crocodile. Sometimes Sebek is combined with the sun god Ra to form the composite god Sebek-Ra.

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Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante & James R. Dow – Copyright © 2009 by Anthony S. Mercatante

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