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Sebek, wearing horns, solar disk with uraeus, and plumes, bronze figurine, c. 600–300 BC; …
(credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum)
In ancient Egyptian religion, a crocodile god. His chief sanctuary in Fayyum province included a sacred crocodile, which was believed to be an incarnation of the god. Sebek may have been associated with fertility or death and burial before becoming a major deity and patron of kings in the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938–c. 1600? BC). He was merged with Re, the sun god, to constitute a crocodile form of that deity known as Sebek-Re. The worship of Sebek continued in Ptolemaic and Roman times.



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Linda Sobek, a former Raiders cheerleader and Playboy model met a similar fate when she left her home to attend a photo shoot.
Mae hon yn deml i ddau dduw - i Horus, y duw hebog ac i Sobek, y duw crocodeil, ac roedd cerfluniau o Sobek hefo corff dyn a phen crocodeil i'w gweld ar y muriau a'r colofnau.
Sobek (industrial and management engineering, Montana State U.
 
 
 
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