Sobek

"I fulfill the law and the law demands your blood.
I am Sobek the Crocodile, the Catastrophe, the Devourer, the Necessity.
Impaled on my teeth, you shall be blessed for you will glimpse the truth.
I am only the secrets of your own dark heart, your lust, your greed, your anger, your flesh.
As long as you breathe, I shall exist to snatch you from yourself, to grind your bones and chew your flesh, to tear the darkness from your heart.
I am the living power of water, the cry that catches in the throat, the sob that shatters stone.
On my teeth you smell the stink of flesh.
To you I seem a living horror.
But I tell you in truth, I am your own soul and it is with great sorrow that I crush the life that you have made.
I weep with the loss, but you do not believe.
Such destruction is madness you say.
You do not understand.
Is it madness to cut the wheat so that bread can be made?
When you were born into this bright land, did you not weep for the lost dark of the womb?
When you have reached the lips of the great Devourer, you are staring into the jaws of creation.
You mistake the teeth of the crocodile as the edge of the abyss, but the chasm is more terrible than teeth, and more certain."
- Hymn of Sobek

A god of water, fertility, and rebirth, Sobek was said to have rose up out of the primeval waters to lay an egg on the banks, and thus created the world.

According to the Coffin Texts, the deceased wishes to become like the crocodile god Sobek, who "lives on fish." Sobek was considered to be patron of fishermen, and to have invented the first fish trap. Many fish were regarded as creatures of chaos, so as a fish eater, Sobek helped to establish order.

As the Lord of Crocodiles, Sobek was originally a demon, as crocodiles were deeply feared in a nation so dependent on the Nile River. His worship began as an attempt to pacify crocodiles so as to reduce the danger they posed.

Sobek represented the symbolic strength of the ruler of Egypt. The crocodile’s power to snatch and destroy its prey was thought to be symbolic of the might of the pharaoh - the strength of the reptile was a manifestation of the pharaoh’s own power.

Sometimes Sobek's natural tendencies overwhelmed his divine nature - when Set cast the dismembered Osiris into the Nile, Sobek yielded to temptation and gulped down part of the body. As punishment, he had his tongue cut out. This, as the story goes, is why crocodiles have no tongues.

Sobek was thought to be the son of Neith or Set, the husband of Taweret, Hathor, Renenutet, and Heket, and the father of Horus, Khonsu, and Khnum.