Leon Sphinx
Sphinx


"A gigantic statue, with lion body and the head of a man, gazes east from Egypt along the thirtieth parallel. Sphinx is a monolith, carved out of the limestone bedrock of the Giza plateau, two hundred and forty feet long, thirty eight feet wide across the shoulders, and sixty six feet high. It is worn down and eroded, battered, fissured and collapsing. Yet nothing else that
has reached us from antiquity even remotely matches its power and grandeur, its majesty and its mystery, or its sombre and hypnotic watchfulness. It is Great Sphinx Once it was believed to be an eternal God. Then amnesia ensnared it and it fell into an enchanted sleep. Ages passed: thousands of years. Climates changed. Cultures changed. Religions changed. Languages changed. Even the positions of the stars in the skies changed.


But still the statue endured, brooding and numinous, wrapped in silence. [1]. "There is a belief that Great Sphinx was fashioned during that period of Egyptian history classified as the `Old Kingdom' on the orders of the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh named Khafre whom the Greeks later knew as Chephren and who reigned from 2520-2494 BC. [2]. " "In these same sources it is also repeatedly stated as fact that the features of the Sphinx were carved to represent Khafre himself in other words, its face is his face. [3]. " "The only problem at any rate without access to a time machine is that none of us, not even distinguished Egyptologists, is really in a position to say whether or not the Sphinx is a portrait or likeness of Khafre. Since the Pharaoh's body has never been found we have nothing to go on except statues (which might or might not have closely resembled the king himself). The best known of these statues, an almost unsurpassable masterpiece of the sculptor's art carved out of a single piece of black diorite, now reposes in one of the ground floor rooms of the Cairo Museum. It is to this beautiful and majestic representation that the scholars make reference when they tell us with such confidence that the Sphinx was fashioned in Khafre's likeness. [4]. "

"The origins of this controversy go back to the late 1970s when John Anthony West, an independent American researcher, was studying the obscure and difficult writings of the brilliant French mathematician and symbolist R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. Schwaller is best known for his works on the Luxor Temple, but in his more general text, Sacred Science (first published in 1961), he commented on the archaeological implications of certain climatic conditions and floods that last afflicted Egypt more than 12,000 years ago: A great civilization must have preceded the vast movements of water that passed over Egypt, which leads us to assume that the Sphinx already existed, sculptured in the rock of the west cliff at Giza that Sphinx whose leonine body, except for the head shows indisputable signs of aquatic erosion." Schwaller's simple observation, which nobody appeared to have taken any notice of before, obviously challenged the Egyptological consensus attributing the Sphinx to Khafre and to the epoch Of 2500 BC. What West immediately realized on reading this passage, however, was that, through geology, Schwaller had also offered a way 'virtually to prove the existence of another, and perhaps greater civilization antedating dynastic Egypt and all other known civilizations by millennia' If the single fact of the water erosion of the Sphinx could be confirmed, it would in itself overthrow all accepted chronologies of the history of civilization; it would force a drastic re evaluation of the assumptions of 'progress' the assumption upon which the whole of modern education is based. It would be difficult to find a single, simple question with graver implication…[5]. "

References:
[1] - [5] Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, Keeper Of Genesis. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1996.

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