ANUBIS [3c]
Cairo, Egypt. January, 2011. Thousands of anti-government protesters clash with riot police. They are demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Civil unrest escalates leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured in the wake of the Arab Spring. Just eight miles away, the Great Sphinx bears silent witness. For thousands of years, and through numerous conflicts, the monument has remained unscathed, except for the loss of its nose.
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“The nose was broken. Many people accuse Napoleon of doing that…to take potshots with his cannons. But, in fact, it was done long before.” – Robert Bauval (Egyptologist), |
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“A Muslim ruler in the Middle Ages decided that the Sphinx represented a guardian of the underworld…that he was a type of demon and that he was dangerous. It was believed that he might have been some kind of dark god, and as a result, the Sphinx was vandalized.” – Kathleen McGowan Coppens (Author/Researcher), |
After many years of study, evidence of just who the face on the Sphinx belongs to remains circumstantial and is debated by researchers. Most scholars attribute the face to Khafre, the pharaoh they propose built the Sphinx. But Ancient Astronaut Theorists claim that the Sphinx was not built by Khafre, as mainstream historians suggest. They say that the Sphinx predates the age of the pharaohs, and propose that the true head of the Sphinx has not been seen for thousands of years.
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“Many people have suggested, including scholars, that the current head that’s on that massive body is way too small for it to be proportional to the body because it was reshaped, re-carved at a later date. If you think about that for a moment, that’s highly fascinating, because what did that thing look like in its original form?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“It has been suggested that perhaps originally it was the face of a lion, or the head of a lion.” – Robert Bauval (Egyptologist), |
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“I think there is an argument that the head of the Sphinx was a full lion’s head. And I think that there is power to the theory that the Sphinx actually represented the constellation of Leo.” – Kathleen McGowan Coppens (Author/Researcher), |
Curiously, there’s no reference to a statue of a Great Sphinx, or even a great lion, in any Old Kingdom texts. But one scholar who has extensively studied the monument proposes that this is due to the fact that it was originally something entirely different.
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“When I saw the body, I instantly thought, “That’s no lion’s body.” Now, if you study a lion, it has great big shoulders it has a sloping back. And so you do not have a straight back for a lion. It couldn’t be more obvious that this is a dog’s body that’s exactly how they crouch when they’re in a guarding position. And there’s only one dog it could be that has to be Anubis. Anubis is a dog god, who is the guardian of the sacred Necropolis. Well, Giza is the sacred Necropolis. And I went through the ancient texts, and I found it mentioned everywhere. The Pyramid Texts and the Book of Gates and the Book of Caverns and the Book of Two Ways and all those ancient books, and they’re talking about it the whole time. The easiest thing to do when trying to destroy the Sphinx is to knock the pointy ears and the pointy nose off, which is what Anubis had. So, this is the remaining stump from which they could fashion a human head. That’s what they did, and it was a very clever job, and everybody’s still in awe of it even though they don’t know any longer that it was meant to be Anubis at one time.” – Robert Temple (Author, The Sphinx Mystery) |
The Egyptian god Anubis is one of the most prominently featured figures in all of Egyptian art. He was considered a protector of graves, the god of mummification, and is associated with the resurrection of the god Osiris.
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“Anubis is clearly identified as a god of the dead. He symbolizes the afterlife. His importance is enormous in these resurrection activities that went on.” – Robert Bauval (Egyptologist), |
Is it possible that the head of the Sphinx was originally carved to look completely different than it does today? And if so, could it have had the face of Anubis? A god that Ancient Astronaut Theorists propose was an actual being who visited our planet in the remote past?
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“The Egyptians themselves genuinely believed that these were actual beings who had dog’s head or jackal heads.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“The god Anubis is listed as one of those who came during Zep Tepi, or the First Time, one of the ancient, ancient ancients who is openly cited in Egyptian mythology as being an extraterrestrial.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
Is it possible that the first pharaohs didn’t build the Sphinx, but discovered it? And might they have actually recarved its face? Perhaps the answer can be found by examining not when the Great Sphinx was built, but why.
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