Crocodile

Egyptian religion

• Crocodile appears in Egyptian religion.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris treats the crocodile among Egyptian sacred animals of that religion’s world. A named animal in that treatise, not a generic Nile-monster dump and not Sobek as an unminted deity id.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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• Crocodile is sacred to Egyptian religion.

  Herodotus’s Egyptian logos describes sacred crocodiles kept and buried in named Egyptian cities — a cult dedication claim, not mere fauna presence. Filed sacred_to because crocodile→appears_in→egyptian-religion is already held by another source walk.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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• Crocodile is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats crocodile among Nile and African animals whose parts enter Roman pharmacological speech. A named crocodile in that encyclopedia, not Plutarch’s Egyptian cult edge alone and not an alligator New-World flatten.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Shinto

• Crocodile appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki’s Hohodemi sea-palace and Inaba hare episodes name wani; Philippi’s English often renders that creature among crocodilians while noting shark readings. A named wani meeting in that compilation’s sea speech, not Sobek alone and not a Nile dump.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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