Sobek-Ra
Dua Sobek-Ra, Shining One, Lord of the Two Lands, Whose Two Eyes Light Up the Darkness!

From the Middle Kingdom onward, the god Sobek had become associated with the sun-god Ra, initially as “He Who Devours the Enemies of Ra.” Later, in the 19th Dynasty, Sobek and Ra’s relationship had evolved- no longer was Sobek simply Ra’s defender, but certain hymns had even given Sobek the epithet “Ra Who Emerged From the Primeval Ocean”. This syncretic evolution continued in the Faiyum theology of the Ptolemaic period, most famously elucidated in the “Book of the Faiyum.” In this local monograph, Sobek was conceived the earthly body of Ra, the two uniting each night during the Solar Bark’s journey - not into the Duat - but into the waters of local lake Moeris. This syncretism reached its climax in the highly sophisticated theology of Kom Ombo, where-in Sobek was not just assimilated to Ra, but had developed into a new syncretized deity entirely, Sobek-Ra. Sobek-Ra’s spheres of influence extended beyond primeval creation, fertility, vegetation, and the inundation, to involve royal power and divine kingship, among other things. Sobek-Ra had become “the Primordial, who has created the Primordials,” the source of light, wind, the Nile water, the sun, and the moon. x