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Sobek - Egyptian Mythology - Crocodile God - Repairer of Evil |
 | | When Neith took on the characteristics of a goddess of primal waters, Sobek became, as a watery creature, of both good and evil, to be considered her son. |
| | Sobek's cult originally flourished around El Faiyûm, where some temples still remain; the area was so associated with Sobek that one town, Arsinoe, was known to the Greeks as Crocodilopolis. |
| | In Arsinoe, they kept a tamed crocodile, ornamented with jewelery, and hand fed with meat, which the greeks referred to as Petsuchos, meaning he of Suchos [i.e. |
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