Sebek

"Sobek was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the sacred and Nile crocodiles and is often represented as a crocodile-headed humanoid, if not as a crocodile outright. Sobek was also associated with pharaonic power, fertility, and military prowess, but served additionally as a protective deity..." [Sobek, Wikipedia]

Sebek, according to reputable anthropologists, was a lesser deity of Inner Egypt; a fertility god of the Nile.[4]

The Evil Cult

However, an Egyptian cult of priest-sorcerers viewed deities such as Sebek as hybrid beast-men who shambled on Earth in primal days.[2] Ludvig Prinn's Saracenic Rituals tells how this cult ruled the Pharaohs from behind the throne, and held the land in their grip.[4]

According to Prinn, the priests of Sebek wore crocodile masks, in emulation of their Lord. They offered virgin maidens to be torn between the jaws of a golden crocodile.[4] In some cases, the crocodile was merely a statue with hinged and barbed jaws.[3] However, once a year Sebek himself appeared to the priests at Memphis in the form of a man with a crocodile head.[4] In return for these offerings, Sebek conferred strange powers on his priests.[3]

After the pharaoh Nephren-Ka, the next pharaoh drove out the wicked priests.[2] They were driven from their temples, and their sanctuaries destroyed.[3] According to Doctor Stugatche, the evil priests were followers of the Faceless One (Nyarlathotep). After the cult was overthrown, Nyarlathotep's attributes were distributed among milder deities such as Sebek.[1]

The Afterlife of Sebek's Priests

Sebek's evil priests believed that he could grant eternal life. "He would guard them in their graves until the resurrection-cycle was completed, and he would destroy their enemies who sought to violate their sepulchers."[4] To facilitate resurrection, the evil priests were mummified with vital organs intact.[3]

According to recognized authorities, only four mummies of Sebek's priesthood have ever been found. The finders of the mummies all died, one of them in the crocodile pit of the London Zoo.[4]

Henricus Vanning smuggled a mummy of another of Sebek's priests to New Orleans for Professor Weildan. A crocodile-headed figure appeared and killed Vanning by biting his throat.[4]

Later, Weildan persuaded the Secret of Sebek/Eyes of the Mummy narrator to help raid the tomb of another priest of Sebek in Egypt. The mummy's eyes had been replaced by yellow jewels that enabled it to swap its consciousness with people in other bodies. It transferred its consciousness to the narrator's body, and killed Weildan. The narrator briefly regained his own body, but then was trapped again in the mummy of the priest, which swiftly decayed.[3]

Other References

Captain Cartaret felt that deities such as Sebek yet dwelt in the ruins of Thebes and Memphis, or bided in the crumbling tombs below the Valley of Kings.[2]

James Allington used the Soul Chant of Sebek as a focal point to split his identity.[6]

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of saurian-snouted Sebek.[5]

1. [RB Faceless]
2. [RB Fane]
3. [RB Mummy]
4. [RB Sebek]
5. [RB Strange]
6. [RB Suicide (online text)]

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