The Pyramids of the Cold Section 19 • The crocodile god Sobek impactor floating in the well

In summary: until now, we've seen many glorifications and deifications of how was operated the Great Pyramid of Giza, and in particular the impactor descending the Grand Gallery towards the inclined well (Horus the Elder and Medjed), and painstakingly rising up in the Gallery from the well (the Bennu bird and Horus the Child) by the effort of the Hauling beetle; but one major part of the cycle was missing, and it was how the impactor had been glorified when it was inside the well.

The answer of that question is in Sobek, the crocodile god: it is known that "Sobek was sometimes considered to be an aspect of Horus because Horus took the form of a crocodile to retrieve the parts of Osiris’ body which were lost in the Nile", and in a different version of the tale of Osiris, "it was Sobek who carried the dead body of Osiris to the bank of the Nile on his back".

19.02  Operating diagram of the impactor of the Great Pyramid, floating inside the inclined well after the impact

The other diagrams of the entire operating cycle of the Grand Gallery (P1 to P10) are available in Part D.

19.03  When the impactor Ra is sending the Hatmehit rope to reconnect with the Distant Goddess Hathor Hauling beetle

For the recovery of the impactor, one man had to get inside the fixed caisson to reattach the Hatmehit rope, and start a whole new Hauling cycle towards the upper part of the Grand Gallery. The Acacia wooden caisson had to have a hatch at the bottom of the Gallery.

"When the Distant Goddess (Hathor) eludes Ra's control, a god is sent forth by Ra to find his daughter and bring her home and, when this happens, she brings with her the inundation of the Nile River which overflowed its banks […]"

The god sent by Ra (who is the impactor), to find Hathor (the Hauling beetle) to reassemble them both is precisely the Hatmehit rope.

"When the Distant Goddess eludes Ra's control, a god is sent forth by Ra to find his daughter and bring her home and, when this happens, she brings with her the inundation of the Nile River which overflowed its banks and brought life to the people".  https://www.worldhistory.org/Hathor/

19.04  The perfect fishing net metaphor of the Hauling beetle crewmembers "caught" inside the beetle's wooden structure

In the following excerpts, it is also mentioned a fishing net used by Sobek to rescue the Four Sons of Horus. To understand the metaphor, you have to imagine what would have looked like the Hauling beetle, with every crewmember isolated in his own little "niche": the crewmembers of the Beetle would have looked like they were caught in a fishing net.

I know I've said that many, many times, but isn't this particular metaphor one of the best of all?

"Sobek was revered for his ferocity and quick movement. It is said that he was the god who caught the four sons of Horus in a net, as they emerged from the waters in a lotus bloom."  http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sobek.htm

"In a different version of the tale of Osiris, it was Sobek who carried the dead body of Osiris to the bank of the Nile on his back. The four mummiform sons of Horus - Imsety, human headed protector of the liver, Hapy, baboon headed protector of the lungs, Duamutef, jackal headed protector of the stomach and Qebehsenuef, falcon headed protector of the intestines - were believed to have come out of a water lily that rose from the waters of Nun. Under the orders of Ra, the four gods were rescued by Sobek in a net, and brought them to land."   http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sobeka.htm

19.05  Operating diagram of the impactor of the Great Pyramid, releasing the impactor

The other diagrams of the entire operating cycle of the Grand Gallery (P1 to P10) are available in Part D.

19.06  When Sobek is described as "the splashing one who came from the thigh and tail of the great goddess"

In the following excerpt, we have the description of the release of the impactor by Hathor. We've already seen that ancient Egyptians used sexual metaphors all around (the masturbatory hands of Atum, references to impregnation and copulation, etc.), and that all these metaphors were about the endless movements of the impactor through the wooden structure of the Hauling beetle that formed like a tunnel inside which the impactor kept "penetrating", or about the ejection of pressurized water from the well, consequently to this endless penetrating movement.

When Sobek is described as "green of plumage, with alert face and raised fore, the splashing one who came from the thigh and tail of the great goddess in the sunlight", it is precisely the description of the impactor release by Hathor. The "Great Goddess" is Hathor; the Beetle which was holding the impactor like a mother would do with her child, before releasing it.

"Unis is Sobek, green of plumage, with alert face and raised fore, the splashing one who came from the thigh and tail of the great goddess in the sunlight ... Unis has appeared as Sobek, Neith's son. Unis will eat with his mouth, Unis will urinate and Unis will copulate with his penis. Unis is lord of semen, who takes women from their husbands to the place Unis likes according to his heart's fancy".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

Relief of the Hathor temple at Dendera, showing the Dendera Light, photographed by Kairoinfo4U and posted on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/manna4u/14525094039/in/photostream/

19.07  When "splashing" Sobek is involved in the process of Creation by laying "eggs" on the bank of Nun

This part of the mythology built on Sobek is crucial, because it directly links the "splashing" Sobek with the creation of the world process and the famous "eggs", which are here the exact same ones than the "cosmic egg" linked to the Dendera light.

The (numerous) "eggs" of Sobek are about the Dendera light and the (numerous) creation of fogs of microdroplets inside the evaporative cooling passage of the Great Pyramid.

"One creation myth stated that Sobek laid eggs on the bank of the waters of Nun, thus creating the world."  https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/sobek/

"One tale says that Sobek laid his eggs on the bank of the waters, starting the creation process."  http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sobeka.htm

19.08  Family Tree of the major ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses

Ancient Egyptian gods were "only" metaphoric representations of the scientific knowledge and experimental accomplishments of the pharaohs. Most of them are directly referring to the Great Pyramid of Giza, the end game of hundreds of years of research.

19.09  Basic mathematics applied to Sobek reveal that Sobek = Horus = Ra

I really didn't expect that Sobek's study would be so prolific, but it turns out that he is maybe one of the most crucial gods of all, kind of at the heart of the abstract and metaphorical construction of what is the ancient Egyptian religion.

In the following excerpts, we can deduct that Sobek = Horus = Ra. It's what I've been saying all along, and it is right there:

1 • Sobek = Horus (Sobek fused with Horus)

"Amenemhat and many of his dynastic contemporaries engaged in building projects to promote Sobek – projects that were often executed in the Faiyum. In this period, Sobek also underwent an important change: he [Sobek] was often fused with the falcon-headed god of divine kingship, Horus. This brought Sobek even closer with the kings of Egypt, thereby giving him a place of greater prominence in the Egyptian pantheon".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

2 • Sobek = Ra (Sobek fused with Ra) 

"Sobek first acquired a role as a solar deity through his connection to Horus, but this was further strengthened in later periods with the emergence of Sobek-Ra, a fusion of Sobek and Egypt's primary sun god, Ra".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

3 • If Sobek = Horus and Sobek = Ra, then Sobek = Horus = Ra

What needs to be pointed out, is that if the affirmation "Sobek = Horus" is 100% correct, the affirmation "Horus = Ra" is "only approximative", because Ra is not the glorification of the entire composite impactor, but only its wooden part. Though, if you just look at them, they are the same because only the wooden part is visible; the Osiris stone can't be seen.

Goddess Hathor (left) and crocodile god Sobek, Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt. Thanks to Codex: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Kom-Ombo-Sobek-et-couronnement-001.jpg

19.10  The atypical temple of Kom Ombo isn't meant for two different deities, but just one single "god": the impactor of the Great Pyramid of Giza, worshiped at two different and consecutive stages of its operating cycle

The fact that Horus the Elder and Sobek were actually both about the same thing, the same "structure", i.e. the impactor getting inside the inclined well of the Great Pyramid, is explaining the unique "double" design for these two gods in the temple of Kom Ombo. The temple is also atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis.

In other words, the temple of Kom Ombo isn't really meant for two different gods, but for the same one: the impactor of the Great Pyramid of Giza, at two different but consecutive stages of its operating cycle.

"The building is unique because its 'double' design meant that there were courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two sets of gods. The southern half of the temple was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world with Hathor and Khonsu. Meanwhile, the northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris ("Horus the Elder"), along "with Tasenetnofret (the Good Sister, a special form of Hathor or Tefnet/Tefnut) and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands)." The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Kom_Ombo

"Ra-Horakhty is a combined deity of Horus and Ra, and is usually depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing a sun disk on his head. By themselves, Ra and Horus sometimes share similar iconography". Wilkinson, Richard H. (2003), in "The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt"; draw by Jeff Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra#/media/File:Re-Horakhty.svg

"Sobek, an ancient Egyptian crocodile god, often depicted with a crown composed of ram horns, a sun disk, and feathered plumes". Draw by Jeff Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek#/media/File:Sobek.svg

19.11  No trace of Sobek at the time when the Great Pyramid was built (Fourth Dynasty)

One of the most difficult things about the deciphering of the real ancient Egyptian history, is the fact that the study has to concentrate both on very little details (architecture particularities, artifact designs and all kind of mythological details), but also on the widest spectrum of the Egyptian history known today.

It is only when you step back at the whole picture that maybe the most important data are visible; and what we know of Sobek is very revealing of the major role that took the Fourth Dynasty: there is simply no trace of Sobek before the Fifth Dynasty.

Nor there is no trace of many other ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses; actually, the "Pyramid Texts" so often mentioned by egyptologists, first appear during that particular Fifth Dynasty; there is nothing before. It means that during the historical period when the great pyramids of Djoser, Sneferu, Khufu and Khafre, pretty much no major "religious" text has ever been written when at the same time, hundreds of thousands of people built these pyramids (and mastabas) over about 656 years. (3150 BCE for the beginning of the First Dynasty to 2494 BCE for the end of the Fourth Dynasty).

What I'm saying, is that it is the Great Pyramid who triggered and inspired all these Pyramid Texts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_of_ancient_Egypt

"Sobek (also known as Sebek, Sebek-Ra, Sobeq, Suchos, Sobki, and Soknopais) was the ancient god of crocodiles. He is first mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and his worship continued until the Roman period". https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/sobek/

"Sobek enjoyed a longstanding presence in the ancient Egyptian pantheon, from the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2686–2181 BCE) through the Roman period (c.  30 bce–350 ce ). He is first known from several different Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom, particularly from spell PT 317. The spell, which praises the pharaoh as the living incarnation of the crocodile god, reads: Unis is Sobek, green of plumage, with alert face and raised fore, the splashing one who came from the thigh and tail of the great goddess in the sunlight ... Unis has appeared as Sobek, Neith's son. Unis will eat with his mouth, Unis will urinate and Unis will copulate with his penis. Unis is lord of semen, who takes women from their husbands to the place Unis likes according to his heart's fancy".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

"The Pyramid Texts are a collection of funerary inscriptions written on the walls of nine Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids (generally dated to around 2350 B.C.E)". https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/pyramidtext/

"The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the pyramid texts were carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, and throughout the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, and into the Eighth Dynasty of the First Intermediate Period.  The oldest of the texts have been dated to c. 2400–2300 BCE".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Texts

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