Sobek: The Egyptian Crocodile God Explained
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I haven't even started the video yet, but I already know that it's gonna be great! 🤩
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Dude these things have nothing to do with metaphor or symbolism from nature, these are real things you encounter in the astral plane, whether you believe it or not . Im living it. Although I want to , I'm not going to go on a judgement rant. But maybe you could actually research occultists who write about their experiences with these beings and find the truth in them. Youll never understand these things with the left side of your brain. You have to experience it. "If you use your mind to study reality , you wont understand either. Your mind or reality." Bodhidharma
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You are something else, I love it though. Attempting to be analytical with our current psyche can be exhausting, I like your belief, even as a fleeting chemical reaction, I don't care, I feel like if you open yourself up to spirituality, you will encounter new ways of going along with your daily life. Spirituality can truly be supplemental to the creative mind.
No such thing as Egyptian mythology but there is Egyptian religion
Staying hungry, and staying hungry means staying alive and thriving
Every year we deny the sperm lord his offerings of mummified crocodiles. And once more we threaten to awaken his anger. All Hail Sobek
I'm so happy that you made this comment.
lol you’re saying it wrong. you should say it like inodj Har Ek Sobek neter a’ah.
-a kemetic pagan.
I am a Kemetic pagan who is a devotee of lord Sobek
@@bigdead1570 hello fellow Kemetic pagan and devotee of Sobek
@@bigdead1570 Ianedj-Her Ek Sobek Neter Wer
Sobek, the Chad god of Crocodile City
"A man has fallen into the river in Crocodile City!"
The virgin Horus, the chad Sobek 😂😂
Mr steal your girl
Yes
Lyle the Crocodile’s ancestor
Greek colonists in Fayoum, eh?
"So, I see that you worship a crocodile god. Why, though? What's he the god of?"
"Sex and eating."
"What?"
"Sex and eating."
"Really? The crocodile?"
"Yes, hallowed be the Lord of Semen."
"THE WHAT? Really? You ain't pulling my leg?"
"No. Great Sobek, the Lord of Semen, god of sex and eating."
"You don't say..."
Next symposium:
"ALL HAIL GREAT SOBEK! HALLOWED LORD OF SEMEN BLESS US WITH THY BOUNTY!"
My home village here in EGYPT is called "Sobek al dahak" .. Which translates to "Sobek, the one who laughs a lot"
And the legend has it that thousands of years ago there was a lake/branch of the Nile that was filled with crocodiles where the ancient egyptians worshiped Sobek
And I think it's very cool to live in a place with such history.
Also, there are thousands of towns and villages here in Egypt that still have ancient egyptian names
There are rumors that if you dig deep enough in the village, you will most probably find ancient relics, statues and gold
@@caldoreo thats cool
That’s interesting that the word for laughter has a similar root as the Hebrew word for laughter
Sobek is my irl name. And yes, i worship him. The name itself is really cool, while the god itself (god Sobek) was amazing.
Can't get over the fact that Egyptian history is so damn _long,_ neary every single god has been the chief/major god at least once.
I suspect it is similar to how each region of Ancient Greece had favored divinities and not every god was worshipped equally. But as you stated the culture is so ancient more has been forgotten about it than is known.
@@edcrichton9457 IIRC in Greece's case It is a geographical thing, different gods for different cities, while in Egypy's case It is a temporal one, different chief gods depending on the period.
The wheel within a wheel.
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov also differing chief Gods depending on the city
@@JuanManuel-ii1ov Ancient Egypt was both, you see that in this video with the Horus-Sobek linkage it just existed for an order of magnitude longer than ancient Greece and so more gods had a chance to occupy important positions in different places and times
Let us not forget Sobek's most devout follower in modern times, Steve Irwin, may he rest in peace.
Lol, imagine going to the afterlife and receiving Sobek’s endorsement. “Since you have cared for my children, I shall care for you!”
I hope Sobek is taking care of him in the afterlife
When I was a teenager, I once had a dream where I met the gaze of Sobek at a fancy party. Yes he had an amazing tux, and he didn’t speak, but glanced toward me as he was filling his plate at the buffet. Yes, I had been reading about Egyptian Mythology at the time lol.
It's also important to remember that in contrast to most animals, crocodiles are virtually impossible to tame and even captive born crocs would eat their zookeepers with no hesitation. This stands in contrast to alligators who are much more likely to ignore familiar humans as long as they don't disturb them.
This really speaks to the devouring nature of Sobek.
How interesting!
Former lead keeper of Herpetology at a prominent US zoo (16 years). I just got back from Egypt. While visiting Sobek’s temple he shares with Horus in the Nubian city of Komombo, the locals keep small to medium-sized Nile crocodiles inside their homes. If I could post the pic of me holding one just last month I would. They are not tame. They will bite you even if handled regularly. I will say they are very calm compared to the many species of captive crocodiles I’ve taken care of in captivity. So, I’d agree with you but, in my opinion, some species of caiman can be just as bad sometimes. American and Chinese alligators are the most chill crocodilians I’ve worked with professionally.
@@boebender When I was in Louisiana there was a family with a pet alligator who seemed very chill, they fed him marshmallows as treats and he was a big fan of those.
There's several rescued alligators that are almost puppy level tame and can be trained - can't imagine that ever being possible with a croc!
DNA tests were run on the crocodile mummies and found to be not Nile Crocodiles but West African Crocodiles that were slightly more docile.
lord of semen sounds like a great villain title.
Or hero.Tomato/tomahto,I suppose.
"What makes a god powerful?"
Crocodile headed God, Lord of Semen, that eats the members of other Gods.
Pretty sure that qualifies.
Supports trans rights too!
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@@subhashishdey4010 Hmmmm... Probably, Egyptian men had a "being cucked by Sobek" kink...
I'm going to name every city in my fantasy world Crocodilopolis now.
10/10 video though, great job as always!
Named for the ancient conqueror, Crocodiler the Great, who conquered most of the known world and named a lot of major cities after himself.
@@Salsmachev He kept a caravan of crocodiles with him, led by the blessed sentient crocodile, Al-Egator, who was tamed and befriended by Crocodiler the Great in childhood
@@Stoneworks Al-Egator would, in point of fact, see him later.
"Crocodilopolis" probably sounded as reasonable to the Egyptians as "Newfoundland" or "Farmington Hills" do to us, but in English it sounds like the first thing a middle schooler would name their fantasy city of crocodiles.
An old man from Crocodilopolis
Had pets who ate folk like they're chocolates
And if hadn't been fed yet
Crawled into the shed; yet
The old man would not put a stop to this.
I feel that Sobek is one of those gods that are often overlooked. I'm super happy to see a video on him.
He got a recent popularity boost from some awesome people supporting trans rights!
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I feel that sobek is a god that’s often over looked on purpose I believe there is much more to the story of sobek that we all may never know!!! But this is one of the best videos I’ve found very well laid out 🐊🐊🐊
Love these Ancient Egyptian religion videos. You’re definitely one of my favorite channels on CZcams, great content 👍🏽
Hey Sobek why are we making everyone think the Earth is an oblate spheroid?
Sobek: “Ehhh, I thought it would be funny.”
Hail Sobek
Hail Sobek
Hail Jesus, master and king of sobek
@@jesusisking7749 who’s that, never heard of him
@@Cheyne_TetraMFG just a guy who’s mum lied to convince others she didn’t cheat.
A couple interesting points to add on:
His name appears to come from the root verb meaning "to impregnate" in Ancient Egyptian. So his "Neb Metu" moniker probably comes from that as well.
Many of the... intimate aspects of Sobek are known because a rather promiscuous Pharaoh named Unis was closely associated to him due to his own appetites, material and carnal.
I remember visiting Sobek's Temple in Assassin's Creed Origins, Interesting how the Egyptians had housed tamed Crocodiles in huge temples.
That and the relation to Elisabet Sobeck from Horizon: Zero Dawn (I was trying to get a feel for why she was the foil to Ted Faro (Pharaoh)) were on my mind during this video. Assassin's Creed got so overrated that it became underrated -- no matter what anyone says, it's awesome to visit a virtual open world recreation of ancient Egypt.
We have had "tame" crocodiles in a lake beside a religious shrine for more than 5 centuries now. Its a Mausoleum of a local scholar/priest from 16th century called Khan Jahan Ali. They've dwindled in number but there's still pictures on the internet.
This makes me think that maybe some crocodiles aren't all that vicious and can be good bois actually
@@mortache They're pretty vicious, but much have much more predictable behavior than similarly sized mammal apex predators (lions, bears), so are easier to raise in captivity.
I feel like quite a few of us heard about Sobek first from the hbomberguy video about flat earth where he references Sobek in response to a video claiming that the early Egyptians knew that the earth was flat.
Hail sobek
and once more we threaten to awaken his anger!
It's funny to watch this video talk around what part of Osiris Sobek ate.
oh no
So that’s why he’s so… yea.
D'oh!
Who else but Sobek!
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2:40: Ancient observers presumably didn't believe the one guy in their village crazy enough to take a close look at the inside of a crocodile's maw.
3:10: ...as fans of hbomberguy know from his flat Earth video. (It makes sense in context...kinda.)
5:13: Alternate take: It's perfectly normal to pay respects to something temperamental that might kill you, because if it likes you it's probably less likely to do so.
9:15: Telling people "Your god is just our god hanging out in your country" is _such_ a power move. Very...Roman Empire of them.
I love how vast the scope of this channel is, one minute i can be learning about the Apocrypha and the next…
One stop shop for everything religious.
That's because religion saturates everything we think and do. Everyone, even professed atheists, are "religious". The scope of religion is endless.
Interestingly for the study of religion, here may be a reference to Sobek in the Bible. Ezekiel 29:3 ".....I am against you, Pharoah, King of Egypt, the great monster who lives in the canals, who says 'Mine is the Nile, and I have made myself'".
Yes probably or possibly Apophis (V)
It sounds like Sobek was the embodiment of the river Nile itself; it brought fertility to the land, but too much or too little water caused death.
I got 2 videos in a row in my notifications about this God. This has to be a sign. I am now a crocodile worshipper. 🐊
They act more real than humans once you start having reciprocity with them 😂
Welcome my friend
Great work, as always! I’d love to see you do more Egyptian videos, like Serqet, Kephri, etc.
More ancient Egypt vids are definitely in the works.
He mentioned that he’d do Khonshu since Moon Knight is coming out on Disney Plus.
Egyptians looking at Sobek: he's just like me fr
2:55 I always used to joke about how the ancient Egyptians were the world's first furries because of the gods with animal heads, but apparently I was actually right.
The old saying that there's nothing new under the sun really is true.
Yes, that also includes Sobek's love of NTR.
Your videos are so well documented and informed that we have been shown some of them in our class at my university in Copenhagen, Denmark. I'm already a fan, so it was quite fun to watch them in class with my professor.
The first female pharaoh was Sobekneferu “ Beauty of Sobek”. I never could figure out that name. Sobek seems to relate to the reptilian part of the brain that governs basic drives for survival and procreation. So in a way they weren’t wrong.
Sobek! Yarh! My favorite god from Smite and my favorite god from Egyptian mithology. I didnt know that he was that important tho. I have a small crocodile figurine at my desk because of him and I can certainly relate to his gifts of life and apetite. Thx fot the knowledge.
Get a friend to play Neith or Nox, and play Arena. It is so much fun to scoop mages or hunters, then have an ally stun them so the rest of the time can gangbang them.
Hail Sobek!
Great stuff as always. I am always struck by how ancient religions contained insight on the world they lived in. Life was so harsh, cruel and fragile. You could have your community destroyed by disease, natural disaster or warlords. It was no wonder the Gods they worshipped reflected that reality
We went from cruel, harsh, and fragile to dreary, flavorless, and prone to becoming just as fragile at the slightest mistake. Hmmm. Do our gods reflect this?
I went to the Temple of Kom Ombo in 2017 after I hired a car in Aswan.
I knew nothing of the temple and I had no guide. I looked down a dry pit and saw a door at bottom and wondered why there was a door.
When I went into the museum on the grounds, I learned the story.
I was playing Pokémon Go at the time and the descriptions were accurate. Most descriptions were in English or Russian.
The museum had trilingual descriptions: Arabic, English, and French.
I spent a few hours there reading the history and viewing mummies of crocodiles previously used in the prophesy sessions.
It was off-season, so no re-enactments were scheduled.
Kom Ombo was the highlight of that segment of my month in مصر.
All Hail Sobek! Lord of Semen!
Hail Sobek
I hope one day we’ll have a video about Nubian religion. We know almost nothing about pre-Egyptian influence Nubian religion, although post-Egyptian influence Nubian religion, the Kushites added their unique Nubian gods & goddesses to the pantheon, and re-contextualized Egyptian deities in a different way. Nubia unified later than Egypt, but it was just as old as Egyptian civilization. Egypt was not the only civilization of Nile valley culture. Menhit & Apedemak are just two of many unique Nubian gods (The Nubians seemed obsessed with lionesses and lions). Another fact is that unlike Egypt, the (thicc) Nubian queens “traditionally often held as much power as their male counterparts, especially when in came to matters of war making, food security & religious authority.
Edit: There is so much more to Africa than Egypt. Racist American Egyptologist like George Reiner, couldn’t fathom that Nubia, an all African civilization (Egypt overtime mixed heavily with Arabs & Europeans like the Assyrians, Libyans, Romans, etc) , was connected to Egypt’s genesis, much less existed at all. Just wanted to point that out.
Yeeees, more Nubian content!!!!
I think you need to stop spamming comments.
Crocodilopolis is my new favorite word .
Hey, can you please do a video where you discuss about the ancient religions of Mesopotamia and Levant such as Babylonian and Canaanite religions, their gods and their practices, please 🥺
Definitely. Sea Peoples video is currently in the works. I'm planning a Hittite video too.
@@ReligionForBreakfast Hype! Sea peoples history is one of my fave things to learn about, yaaay!
I just looked up the largest Nile River crocodile.
I can't comprehend how massive it is !
the Saltwater Croc is bigger and nastier
It’s terrible they have lost their natural territory
Am I the only person cracking up that the name 'Crocodilopolis' is a real name that Greeks gave an Egyptian city?
I am assuming it was shortened from "You know that city with all the crocodiles and crocodile temples?".
What's strange about this? The Greeks founded a bunch of Philadelphias as well.
"Polis" means city. And Crocodile is just one of oh so many words borrowed from Greek into Latin and then into English.
You're not alone! XD
What cracks me up is nehebukau.
more specifically, its appearence in spell 87 of the "book of the dead."
Great video. Having been to Egypt (my lifelong dream) I have great respect for their cosmology. Many of the Mediterranean basin cultures borrowed from it, including christianity, in my opinion. The Egyptians were ahead of their time, of course, they had thousands of years to perfect their culture in a relative vacuum. Not something that is possible today.
Who's here because of Moonknight
I remember reading somewhere that Ancient Egyptians didn’t actually think their animal-headed gods looked that way; rather the animal-headed images represented their ability to shapeshift between human and animal forms. Does anyone know if that’s accurate or not?
Not on that specifically, but the Greeks believed (in some stories) that their gods fled to Egypt in the form of animals to avoid being defeated by Typhon. When the Egyptians saw that that inspired the belief in their gods so potentially a Greek interpretation of an already existing Egyptian belief.
They believed their gods were abstract and couldn’t be truly shown in art, so they believed the human bodies with animal heads to represent their nature.
Its not shapeshifting its more likely gods qualities, horus was represented originally by falcon totems due to the fact he represented the qualities of falcons such as being “above” egypt in the authority of a pharoah, Ra was a falcon just as the sun is allways in the sky a falcon is allways flying in the sky, sekhmet a lion because shes most famous for massacring and being bloodthirstily like one etc.
not shapeshifting perse. the animal and human forms are representative of aspects of each god, of which there are many
There isn’t even evidence to suggest that Greek people literally believed in the Myths.
The word “Mythos” (Greek Word) already implies that these were made up stories to talk about something through symbolism.
The gods in every classical polytheist tradition are similar to the gods in every other polytheist traditions.
Shinto is very similar to Hellenic Polytheism, Ancient Egyptian Religions and Germanic Polytheism.
Western people (both Christians and Atheists) apply Christian paradigms to Polytheism and Animism.
Polytheists do not generally believe in mythology, they do however build ritualistic relationships with gods and spirits (both are often the same thing).
If you want to understand ancient people in the West, look at how people see their gods in China, India and Japan, it’s the same, they all have the same concepts and the ambiguity of the experiences with gods and spirits is also present.
Certainty and belief are Christian values. Polytheism and Animism are fundamentally about relationship and reciprocity with spirit(s).
I love ancient Egyptology. Sobek is my favorite god of theirs so thank you for the in-depth insight!!
The more i look into ancient religions, the more they fascinate me! A crocodile god is the best ancient god i have seen yet!
Could you recommend some literature on the Egyptian gods? The really famous ones are pretty easy to find information on, but once you get into the slightly obscure territory, it’s harder to find much about them beyond a cursory explanation. Some more in depth information about their history within Egyptian culture would be especially appreciated.
Also, completely unrelated to the video, do you know whether any cultures outside of the Greco-Roman sphere deified (or at least had gods strongly associated with) the concept of fortune/luck?
Egyptologist here; Richard H. Wilkinson's The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Stephen Quirke's Cult of Ra, are great.
@@EtienneHookey I have Wilkinson's book, it's excellent. The most comprehensive encyclopedia of Egyptian deities I've yet found.
@T.V.2 ?
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Thanks!
@T.V.2 stop spamming ffs
Great stuff. I remember visiting the cricidopolous (?) temple in the mid 90s while tagging along with a study group connected with the brit museum. I was not a student, just tagging along. But we got into many cool places 👍
Work on your spelling a little, Alan.
@@judeirwin2222 Too late for that fella. I am on the other side of the learning tunnel. Would you like suggestions on what you could work on 👍😂.
Praise and love the almighty god sobek! 🙏 💙
Always a highlight when I see one of your videos in my feed! Thank you!
I love the videos on ancient egyptian gods/religion! Really hope this becomes a full series 🙏
This deity reminds me of the lizard people from dnd. And I say that as a good thing since they're one of my favourite playable races. Also, what I get from this video is that ancient Egyptians were the first furries. The god of fertility who's so sexy that no woman can resist him is an anthropomorphic crocodile 🐊
The first scalies, to be specific! :))
Very informative channel. Great work team and thank you for sharing this.
You have such a way with words. How you describe these ancient (and modern) religions with the respect they deserve just stirs the heart strings
Thank you so very much for this fantastic video!!
Praise be to Lord Sobek!
Great stuff thanks. It’s amazing to have access to this for free. Keep it up!
Praise Sobek. I practice the Kemetic religion. I love Crocodiles too.
🙏🙏 ❤❤
Egyptian religion is by far my favorite, so interesting! Would love more videos like this!
Hi,' RelionaForBreakfast'. I most appreciated your knowledge; thanks, Big Time, for sharing. Cheers 🍷.
Hail to Sobek! Excellent video. I hope you do more on the Egyptian gods.
Really interesting, haven't seen this covered anywhere else,!
You know, it's funny. I had a dream about a crocodile last night and now I see this video. I think the Lord of Faiyum wants a word with me.
Dua Sobek!
Wow that's amazing, i also loved the one about horus🤩 please do more about Egyptian gods 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
"Hide your kids, hide your wife"
"Just...just hide."
Great video and please, please make video about Bastet
I really appreciate this sort of videos:)
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hey thanks for the video I was always curious about my childhood
Yes! I love ancient religion! Thanks for this!
All hail Sobek
Sobek: [mimicking Anthony Quinn in "Lawrence of Arabia"]: "I... am a RIVER TO MY PEOPLE!" (Anyone who disagrees with that is living in de Nile.)
Fantastic video! Thank you so much :)
I love these videos about Egyptian gods. Ancient Egyptian religion is especially interesting since Egypt is one of the most Islamic countries today.
Crocodiles are cool, in my opinion.
Agreed.
A excellent video! Could you do a video on the worship and history of the greek god hera?
The crocodile in the 1987 computer game _Seven Spirits of Ra_ is named Sebat, and I don't know if they had a reason for that choice. Sebat is the name of a rather obscure Egyptian princess about which practically nothing is known but she almost certainly wasn't a crocodile. Perhaps the game writers wanted a name that echoed Sobek but felt it was inappropriate to use the name of the god directly. (In their version of the myth, all of Osiris's body is eaten by wild animals, and Osiris must defeat the spirits of these animals in the underworld, including Sebat). If anyone knows more it would be interesting.
@T.V.2 I think you should explain how the question is relevant to the comment you are replying to, otherwise people will assume you are spamming.
need more of this fr
Oh yeeeees!!! Finally a video of my favorite egyptian crocodile god!
Sobek was the original Mr. Steal Yo Girl
I have been waiting for this video...
Great video, thanks.
The death metal band Nile is all about Egyptian mythology, got me interested in the subject. Thanks for the upload!
Great Video , Thx very much.
Thank you 🙏 🌊 🙏
This history is said with a straight face love it!
Sobek, god of fertility who brought the Nile flood and was symbolised in a crocodile is now dealt with twofold by the Aswan High Dam. The flood is controlled and the crocodiles displaced. Poetic, nearly
The flood was predictable. The crocodiles… marginally less so.
These are fascinating
Thanks!
All hail the meme god of the Nile
I know this guy from Cluefinders 4th grade. He was depicted as a God of strength lol and his power was given to a jokey character who also liked to eat. They got that right it seems
Osiris tasted so bad that Sobek had to spit him out like Gordon Ramsay spitting food in Kitchen Nightmares
I'm curious if you'd be willing to touch on reconstruction of these ancient faiths sometime.
I'm currently reading a book about egyptian mythologie. So that video defently came at the right time. :)
great video. thank you.
a version of Sobek was used in marvel's Moon Knight recently. I'd love to see a break down of how Marvel's Egyptian mythology compares to the real thing. Now that season one of Moon knight is over a full breakdown would be awesome.
Glad I found your content.
Fascinating stuff!
This makes a lot of sense when I was watching A Haunting for an episode called 'Curse of the Mummy'
I remember hearing the myth of Sobek killing Osiris in the audiobook Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green in Primary School.
Does anyone else think that the little hybrid of crocodile and falcon at 9:19 is kinda cute, or is it just me?
Thanks you so much🙏🏼
I learned so much
As a useful aside: on telling a crocodile from an alligator. If you see it later, it’s an alligator. If you see it in a while, it’s a crocodile. Useful info I’m sure you agree. I’ll see myself out.....
Great video can you do a video on the TAINO religion and there sprits like Atabey the earth mother and guakar the paytren of warriors and yokahu the male creater spirt