On the Giza plateau, facing the rising sun, the Great Sphinx statue remains. Visit it is impossible to remain indifferent, the Sphinx is huge, 241 m long, 20 meters wide and 66.34. It is one of the oldest and largest statues in the world, but apart from these measures, we know very little about it. Nobody knows for certain whose face bares the statue, which was built or why. We know that the Great Sphinx is so old as the pharaohs (including Rameses II), considered one of the workers incredibly old and sent to restore it, as their time almost all of the ancient statue had disappeared beneath the sands .Beyond there is no written mention of its inception and we do not know his name. Why do we call him "The Sphinx"?
Greek mythology tells of a mythical beast who had the body of a lion and the head of a woman. This beast guarded the city of Thebes, Thebes, but this is Greek, not Egyptian city of the same name. According to the legend of this beast has asked each traveler passing an enigma. "Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at midday on two, and three in the evening, and it has more legs, the lower it?" Any person unable to meet the riddle was immediately strangled and eaten by the monster. According to the legend of Oedipus escaped death with this answer "The man who walks on all fours like a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age. " The monster, then jumped off the cliff where she lived until his death. This monster that the Greeks called a sphinx, the Greek word meaning "strangling" the result is that all these monuments of a mythical beast with the body of a lion, if the Greek state or Egyptian statues are now called "Sphinx .
Anyone who has watched an Egyptian statue of a sphinx may be confused - it does not seem like a statue of a monster. Could there be some sort of error? There are many similar statues showing Egyptian lion-bodied creatures with heads of other animals (often men or rams) as the main avenue of 900 Sphinx at Thebes in Egypt, but the sphinx (we do not really know what 'they Ancient Egyptians called them) were not monsters. A statue of the Egyptian Sphinx was a guardian, the body represented the lion god of the sun And it's not the only difference.
A statue of a sphinx Greek shows a body of lions, a tale of snakes and a woman's face.The lion is sitting, legs vertical font, but its most remarkable feature is the pair of eagles' wings extending over her shoulders. Egyptian statues represent the body of a lion lying down and usually the head of a human or another animal. Specifically, they have no wings at all.
It seems strange that this single word could represent two different forms of these ancient statue, but the Great Sphinx itself has even more mysteries.
In 1950, RA Schwaller de Lubicz noticed traces of what he thought was water erosion inside the Sphinx enclosure. In 1989, a further investigation by geologist Robert Schoch revealed that this "tampering" was caused by rain, but the average annual rainfall in the region since 2600 BC (when archaeologists believe the Sphinx was built) was only an inch. This has led some authors to assert that the Sphinx is actually much older than previously thought and date of the pre-dynastic Egyptian statue making it over 5000 years. While many famous archaeologists say it can not be true and give further explanations for the effect of water erosion, the fact that no other building located on the Giza plateau shows no signs of this alteration leaves the question unanswered.
Although he lacks the flamboyance of a statue of a winged sphinx Greek, the Great Sphinx is magnificent. We do not know it's age or why he was so carefully carved into the rock of the Giza plateau, but we have the chance to enjoy this ancient statue and its mysteries, and I look forward to the day when they can be fully understood
Greek mythology tells of a mythical beast who had the body of a lion and the head of a woman. This beast guarded the city of Thebes, Thebes, but this is Greek, not Egyptian city of the same name. According to the legend of this beast has asked each traveler passing an enigma. "Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at midday on two, and three in the evening, and it has more legs, the lower it?" Any person unable to meet the riddle was immediately strangled and eaten by the monster. According to the legend of Oedipus escaped death with this answer "The man who walks on all fours like a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age. " The monster, then jumped off the cliff where she lived until his death. This monster that the Greeks called a sphinx, the Greek word meaning "strangling" the result is that all these monuments of a mythical beast with the body of a lion, if the Greek state or Egyptian statues are now called "Sphinx .
Anyone who has watched an Egyptian statue of a sphinx may be confused - it does not seem like a statue of a monster. Could there be some sort of error? There are many similar statues showing Egyptian lion-bodied creatures with heads of other animals (often men or rams) as the main avenue of 900 Sphinx at Thebes in Egypt, but the sphinx (we do not really know what 'they Ancient Egyptians called them) were not monsters. A statue of the Egyptian Sphinx was a guardian, the body represented the lion god of the sun And it's not the only difference.
A statue of a sphinx Greek shows a body of lions, a tale of snakes and a woman's face.The lion is sitting, legs vertical font, but its most remarkable feature is the pair of eagles' wings extending over her shoulders. Egyptian statues represent the body of a lion lying down and usually the head of a human or another animal. Specifically, they have no wings at all.
It seems strange that this single word could represent two different forms of these ancient statue, but the Great Sphinx itself has even more mysteries.
In 1950, RA Schwaller de Lubicz noticed traces of what he thought was water erosion inside the Sphinx enclosure. In 1989, a further investigation by geologist Robert Schoch revealed that this "tampering" was caused by rain, but the average annual rainfall in the region since 2600 BC (when archaeologists believe the Sphinx was built) was only an inch. This has led some authors to assert that the Sphinx is actually much older than previously thought and date of the pre-dynastic Egyptian statue making it over 5000 years. While many famous archaeologists say it can not be true and give further explanations for the effect of water erosion, the fact that no other building located on the Giza plateau shows no signs of this alteration leaves the question unanswered.
Although he lacks the flamboyance of a statue of a winged sphinx Greek, the Great Sphinx is magnificent. We do not know it's age or why he was so carefully carved into the rock of the Giza plateau, but we have the chance to enjoy this ancient statue and its mysteries, and I look forward to the day when they can be fully understood
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