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Question for SHvar

Soulskater Mar 10, 2004 08:20 AM

How did you come up with the name sobek? It sounds familiar. Does it mean anything?
Thanks

Replies (3)

ciliatus Mar 10, 2004 08:53 AM

its the name of an egyptian crocodile god. sobek
is kind of a "bodyguard" for ra, set and the pharaoh.

hope that helped

SHvar Mar 10, 2004 10:08 AM

Legends etc and the name jumped out and caught my attention a week after I got her.

Bloodbat Mar 10, 2004 08:06 PM

The word sobek means "power of the pharaohs" or several other derivations of that sense. That is also why my CBB nile is named Sobek. His father's name was Pharaoh.
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