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| Title | The Crocodile god |
| Cult Center | Crocodilopolis |
| Gender | Male - Crocodile |
| Patron - Dominion | fertility of the Nile - patron of the Pharaoh's army |
| Dedicated temples | Kom Ombo |
| Appearance | man with the head of a crocodile crocodile wearing plumed headdress with a horned sun disk |
He was worshipped in cities that depended on water, oasis of Fayum
He assisted in the birth of Horus
In the Legend of Osiris he catches and rescued The Four sons of Horus in a net, as they emerged from the waters of the Nile in a lotus blossom
God of the Nile,
Cult flourished in the Middle Kingdom 12th and 13th Dynasty - when capital of Egypt was in Fayum
In the Ptolemaic Period he gained importance again and was seen as the Egyptian incarnation of Petsuchos
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