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Okay, here we are at Kamombo Temple dedicated
to two netters, Sobek and Rami.

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And Horace, that's the initiation and it's
the initiation of this temple is to lose y...

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And so Hakeem would do a special initiation
for people here, which you can't do anymor...

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He would stand in this niche, make a tone in
here.

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He would come out, he'd come out and face a
person, would be facing him.

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He would hold somebody and say, you have
nothing to fear.

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I love you.

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Then hug.

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And then we come.

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This grate wasn't here.

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Crawl down in this tunnel.

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And we continue on through.

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And as you're crawling down the tunnel, it
starts to narrow a little bit.

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And you're crawling on your stomach.

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It starts to narrow a little bit.

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There's a point right in the middle where the
first time I did it, you get that moment o...

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Can I make it? Am I too fat? Am I going to
get through? Am I going to die?

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And then once you release that, say, the hell
with it, I'm going, and crawl all the way...

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Crawl all the way through.

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Okay.

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I told you we have to, dogs.

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Come back here.

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On this part, come up.

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And it's like a rebirth.

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Like you feel like you're reborn when you
come up.

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And it's supposed to have been giving the
fear of death to Sobek.

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He's the digester. He digests everything.

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And so this temple is the initiation to lose
your fears.

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And this is what Hakeem did until Zaki
Ch'uwas, and I'll say it out loud, found o...

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And when we came here in 2004, these greats
were here.

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Up until then, we could do this.

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So in 2004, we had a very brave person with
us, pulled up the greats and went and did ...

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We can't do that now because of the other
groups.

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The problem is other tour guides will tell on
us.

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So, but this was his initiation.

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And the real initiation here was that there
is a big basin here,

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where it was filled with water, crocodiles
were on the bottom.

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And what the priests would do is they'd have
to dive down.

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It's way down and it's a narrow entrance that
you have to be able to swim through to com...

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And all the crocodiles are on the bottom.

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Of course, the priests were never told that
the crocodiles are well fed.

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But you still had to swim right by them.

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So, of course, if you didn't panic, drown, go
crazy, you pass the initiation on the othe...

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Again, to lose the fear of death is a lesson
here.

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Give it to Sobek, the crocodiles, the
digester.