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Egyptians lived with crocodiles daily—on fields, ferries, and fishing boats—so they gave the predator a god’s face: Sobek, lord of the Nile’s strength and fertility. In the Faiyum’s Crocodilopolis (Shedet/Arsinoë), visitors met the Petsuchos, a temple‑kept crocodile that priests adorned and fed—Strabo says with honeyed cakes and wine—as a living incarnation of Sobek. When a sacred animal died, it was treated like royalty: wrapped in linen, coated with resins, and entombed. Excavations at Tebtuni
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Egyptians lived with crocodiles daily—on fields, ferries, and fishing boats—so they gave the predator a god’s face: Sobek, lord of the Nile’s strength and fertility. In the Faiyum’s Crocodilopolis (Shedet/Arsinoë), visitors met the Petsuchos, a temple‑kept crocodile that priests adorned and fed—Strabo says with honeyed cakes and wine—as a living incarnation of Sobek. When a sacred animal died, it was treated like royalty: wrapped in linen, coated with resins, and entombed. Excavations at Tebtuni
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This incredible mummified Nile crocodile, with 25 baby crocs on its back, is around 2,600 years old. It was a sacred animal worshipped as a manifestation of Sobek, Egypt's god of fertility. At temples dedicated to Sobek, young crocodiles would be tended in sacred pools and given a luxurious lifestyle befitting their status as living gods. People increasingly returned to worshipping animal gods as they lost faith in the once all-powerful Cleopatra, a disillusionment with their rulers that represe
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This incredible mummified Nile crocodile, with 25 baby crocs on its back, is around 2,600 years old. It was a sacred animal worshipped as a manifestation of Sobek, Egypt's god of fertility. At temples dedicated to Sobek, young crocodiles would be tended in sacred pools and given a luxurious lifestyle befitting their status as living gods. People increasingly returned to worshipping animal gods as they lost faith in the once all-powerful Cleopatra, a disillusionment with their rulers that represe
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