Petesuchos
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Petesuchos is a crocodile god who was worshiped in the Fayyum from the 2nd to the 3rd century AD and was also described as a subsidiary form of the god "Sobek in the Fayyum".
Name meaning
According to Hans Bonnet , his name means "the one whom Suchos gave" . It is difficult to assign a specific task to this god, and it was assumed that Petesuchos was a deified man. On the other hand, Adolf Erman , whose assumption was based on Pliny , suspected that he was the builder of the labyrinth . However, Petesuchos was believed to be the name of a sacred crocodile that was worshiped in this way in Fayyum. According to Wilcken , a Petesuchos crocodile is reported in the 21st year of Ptolemy Neos Dionysus .
Cult places
This deity was worshiped in Madinat al-Fayyum (Crocodilopolis), Kerkeosiris and Theadelphia , where his shrines are also located. In Karanis there is a temple dedicated to him and Pnepheros .
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd, unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 .
- Rolf Felde: Egyptian deities. 2nd expanded and improved edition, R. Felde Eigenverlag, Wiesbaden 1995.