I haven't even started the video yet, but I already know that it's gonna be great! 🤩 The only problem that I have with RFB is that, as far as I know, its videos don't normally have subtitles in my native language (Portuguese), so I can't recommend your channel to a friend of mine who would LOVE it, but doesn't know much English yet. If possible, Dr. Henry, I would like to offer myself to subtitle your videos in my free time, for free. Could I do that?
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
@@benvinar2876 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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
@@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
"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 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 🐊🐊🐊
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!"
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.
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.
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'".
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow, Sobek as a piece of art is just grand, it has it all, I think. Visually, the form of Sobeks head on top of a human body, the unique perspective of ancient egypt. Genious. Different peoples in Africa and other places have a real loving and close relation to the crocodile too. Fascinating creature!
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 👍
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.
@Schrödingers Katze Xenophone criticized his contemporaries for humanizing the gods and depicting them in human forms, it’s likely some thought the tales were real while others looked at them as allergories.
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.
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 🥺
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?
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
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 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.
The interesting things about Kom Ombo is that it shows Sobek-Ra with his wife being Hathor and their child Khonsu the Moon God. Sobek is also seen as possibly a God of Healing and Surgery due to the famous depiction of surgeons tools on one of the walls.
I mean yeah. You wouldn't worship something that's not either dangerous or vital to survival. Irrelevant things typically don't get reverence. Unless they trick you into thinking they are relevant... Like celebrities and politicians
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
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.
It was also the dynasty unfortunately she was the last Pharaoh of the 12 dynasty she's the first one to appear on a Kings list: Neferusobek. She brewed for quite a long time and she finished her dad's funeral complex which further inspired Ramses II and Hatchepsut to build theirs
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.....
Sebek, Sochet, Suchos, Dread lord of the Marsh He who crawleth amongst the Sacred Waters And Devoureth the Flesh of that Which is sacrificed unto him Tua Ashemu Tua Ashemu Rekhes Au Sebek Rekhes Au Sebek Tua Ashemu Tua Ashemu Sebek Neter Ashemu Whose teeth rendeth and teareth with terrible violence Restore the eyes of the dead Collect their skulls Join their bones together again Lord of the temple of the Mount of Sunrise Open the way unto the underworld Cause the dead to rise to new life Bring the child Horus upon the throne of Osiris I love Nile! 🤟
Why did Egyptians worship a dangerous predator? For the same reason the Israelites worshipped a malevolent war god perhaps; in order to appease them, so they wouldn’t turn against the people?
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I haven't even started the video yet, but I already know that it's gonna be great! 🤩
The only problem that I have with RFB is that, as far as I know, its videos don't normally have subtitles in my native language (Portuguese), so I can't recommend your channel to a friend of mine who would LOVE it, but doesn't know much English yet. If possible, Dr. Henry, I would like to offer myself to subtitle your videos in my free time, for free. Could I do that?
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
@@benvinar2876
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
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
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.
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
@@Angelica_Darkheart777 "And I'm here with my good mate, Sobek. Isn't he a beauty!" ❤
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.
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 🐊🐊🐊
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!"
Love these Ancient Egyptian religion videos. You’re definitely one of my favorite channels on UA-cam, great content 👍🏽
"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...
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 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.
lord of semen sounds like a great villain title.
Or hero.Tomato/tomahto,I suppose.
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.
Wow that’s so cool to hear
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!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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I love ancient Egyptology. Sobek is my favorite god of theirs so thank you for the in-depth insight!!
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
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.
Egyptians looking at Sobek: he's just like me fr
Thanks!
All hail the meme god of the Nile
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
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!!!!
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I love the videos on ancient egyptian gods/religion! Really hope this becomes a full series 🙏
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.
Thank you so very much for this fantastic video!!
Praise be to Lord Sobek!
The more i look into ancient religions, the more they fascinate me! A crocodile god is the best ancient god i have seen yet!
Egyptian religion is by far my favorite, so interesting! Would love more videos like this!
Wow, Sobek as a piece of art is just grand, it has it all, I think. Visually, the form of Sobeks head on top of a human body, the unique perspective of ancient egypt. Genious. Different peoples in Africa and other places have a real loving and close relation to the crocodile too. Fascinating creature!
Very informative channel. Great work team and thank you for sharing this.
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 👍😂.
Always a highlight when I see one of your videos in my feed! Thank you!
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
@Schrödingers Katze Xenophone criticized his contemporaries for humanizing the gods and depicting them in human forms, it’s likely some thought the tales were real while others looked at them as allergories.
Crocodilopolis is my new favorite word .
Hi,' RelionaForBreakfast'. I most appreciated your knowledge; thanks, Big Time, for sharing. Cheers 🍷.
All Hail Sobek! Lord of Semen!
Hail Sobek
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."
Hail Sobek!
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Yes! I love ancient religion! Thanks for this!
Wow that's amazing, i also loved the one about horus🤩 please do more about Egyptian gods 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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!
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.
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Hail to Sobek! Excellent video. I hope you do more on the Egyptian gods.
11:08 I’m sorry but Sobeks temple was called “Croc-o-dolopolus”?
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.
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I love these videos about Egyptian gods. Ancient Egyptian religion is especially interesting since Egypt is one of the most Islamic countries today.
Praise and love the almighty god sobek! 🙏 💙
Osiris tasted so bad that Sobek had to spit him out like Gordon Ramsay spitting food in Kitchen Nightmares
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.
Glad I found your content.
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.)
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!
Oh yeeeees!!! Finally a video of my favorite egyptian crocodile god!
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! :))
Really interesting, haven't seen this covered anywhere else,!
Who's here because of Moonknight
"Hide your kids, hide your wife"
"Just...just hide."
The death metal band Nile is all about Egyptian mythology, got me interested in the subject. Thanks for the upload!
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.
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Sobek was the original Mr. Steal Yo Girl
Crocodiles are cool, in my opinion.
Agreed.
The interesting things about Kom Ombo is that it shows Sobek-Ra with his wife being Hathor and their child Khonsu the Moon God. Sobek is also seen as possibly a God of Healing and Surgery due to the famous depiction of surgeons tools on one of the walls.
I really appreciate this sort of videos:)
Does anyone else think that the little hybrid of crocodile and falcon at 9:19 is kinda cute, or is it just me?
I remember hearing the myth of Sobek killing Osiris in the audiobook Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green in Primary School.
I mean yeah. You wouldn't worship something that's not either dangerous or vital to survival. Irrelevant things typically don't get reverence.
Unless they trick you into thinking they are relevant... Like celebrities and politicians
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
This history is said with a straight face love it!
I remember when rock was young, me and Sobek had so much fun...
I walk with/Follow god Sobek, always and forever and i love him so much because he's very strong, powerful, protective but a warm-hearted god 💙🐊.
Hit it with a club
I have been waiting for this video...
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.
My theory why Sobek doesn't have any children is because ancient Egyptians uses crocodile dung as a contraceptive for women...
It was also the dynasty unfortunately she was the last Pharaoh of the 12 dynasty she's the first one to appear on a Kings list: Neferusobek. She brewed for quite a long time and she finished her dad's funeral complex which further inspired Ramses II and Hatchepsut to build theirs
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.....
A excellent video! Could you do a video on the worship and history of the greek god hera?
Sebek, Sochet, Suchos, Dread lord of the Marsh
He who crawleth amongst the Sacred Waters
And Devoureth the Flesh of that Which is sacrificed unto him
Tua Ashemu
Tua Ashemu
Rekhes Au Sebek
Rekhes Au Sebek
Tua Ashemu
Tua Ashemu
Sebek Neter Ashemu
Whose teeth rendeth and teareth with terrible violence
Restore the eyes of the dead
Collect their skulls
Join their bones together again
Lord of the temple of the Mount of Sunrise
Open the way unto the underworld
Cause the dead to rise to new life
Bring the child Horus upon the throne of Osiris
I love Nile! 🤟
So basically, Sobek is a pretty accurate representation of a crocodile, at least as far as we can understand one, as a god? Neat.
This makes a lot of sense when I was watching A Haunting for an episode called 'Curse of the Mummy'
Why did Egyptians worship a dangerous predator? For the same reason the Israelites worshipped a malevolent war god perhaps; in order to appease them, so they wouldn’t turn against the people?
I'm curious if you'd be willing to touch on reconstruction of these ancient faiths sometime.
Thank you 🙏 🌊 🙏
Before this video, everything I knew about Sobek i learned from Bayek of Siwa.
Crocodilopolis is such a kickass name for a city