The Sphinx Mystery
Shrouded in mystery for centuries, the Sphinx of Giza has frustrated
many who have attempted to discover its original purpose. Accounts exist
of the Sphinx as an oracle, as a king’s burial chamber, and as a temple
for initiation into the Hermetic Mysteries. Egyptologists have argued
for decades about whether there are secret chambers underneath the
Sphinx, why the head-to-body ratio is out of proportion, and whose face
adorns it.
In The Sphinx Mystery, Robert Temple with his wife Olivia address the
many mysteries of the Sphinx. He presents eyewitness accounts,
published over a period of 281 years, of people who saw the secret
chambers and even went inside them before they were sealed in
1926--accounts that had been forgotten until the author rediscovered
them. He also describes his own exploration of a tunnel at the rear of
the Sphinx, perhaps used for obtaining sacred divinatory dreams.
Robert Temple reveals that the Sphinx was originally a monumental
Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god, and that its face is that of a Middle
Kingdom Pharaoh, Amenemhet II, which was a later re-carving. In
addition, he provides photographic evidence of ancient sluice gate
traces to demonstrate that, during the Old Kingdom, the Sphinx as Anubis
sat surrounded by a moat filled with water--called Jackal Lake in the
ancient Pyramid Texts--where religious ceremonies were held. He also
provides evidence that the exact size and position of the Sphinx were
geometrically determined in relation to the pyramids of Cheops and
Chephren and that it was part of a pharaonic resurrection cult.
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