7.2 – MYSTERIES OF THE SPHINX (11.7.14)

THE MARTIAN SPHINX ^[3f]

Pasadena, California. July 4, 1997. Aerospace engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory anxiously await a signal from the Pathfinder indicating that it has landed intact on the surface of Mars. Thousands of viewers watch live news feeds as the event unfolds. Hours after its successful landing, Pathfinder sends the first images from the surface of Mars in over two decades. During its 12-week mission, Mars Pathfinder transmits 2.3 billion bits of information, including more than 17,000 images. Among these photos is an image that some say reveals formations that mirror the Giza Plateau including what appears to be a sphinx.

“One of these photographs shows what looks like a sphinx that is facing to the east sunrise on Mars. There is a huge pyramid mountain behind it and you have to wonder if this Martian sphinx isn’t created by extraterrestrials.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

“Some have proposed that there is a mirror image of the Giza Plateau on Mars and therefore Mars might have been inhabited. And this is why we allegedly have structures on Mars that are of artificial origin.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

The idea of extraterrestrial life inhabiting Mars has long fascinated mankind. In 1895, astronomer Percival Lowell proposed an ancient civilization built canals on Mars to bring water from the poles to keep their society alive. And since the first landing on the surface of Mars in 1976, NASA Mars missions have focused almost exclusively on determining if life could exist on the red planet.

“We’ve found no real hard evidence of life. And yet there’s this tantalizing possibility where we haven’t given up. We would be looking for a subterranean civilization, because surface conditions are just so harsh. Conceivably, you could have whole complex ecosystems existing underground.” – Robert H. Frisbee, Ph.D. (Propulsion Systems Engineer, NASA JPL, Ret.)

“I think that if we were to go to Mars and find civilization there, much of it would be underground. And you have to wonder if this Martian sphinx isn’t guarding some underground world on Mars similar to the underground world at Giza that we know exists today.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

Do the formations on Mars provide evidence that the planet was once inhabited? And if so, does this sphinx on Mars also serve as a marker of an entrance to an underground world and perhaps the true location of a secret hall of records? According to some Ancient Astronaut Theorists, if this Sphinx in Giza truly has a counterpart on Mars, it would match up with what has been found in some of mankind’s earliest writings.

“A famous linguist by the name of Zecharia Sitchin actually translated ancient Sumerian tablets that describe Mars being used as a way station by their gods, the Anunnaki. It’s very possible that these ancient Sumerian tales talking about the Anunnaki traversing between Mars and Earth are actual fact and show a deeper connection of what we have in Giza and what we also have on Mars.” – Jason Martell (Founder, AncientSchool), (Author, Knowledge Apocalypse)

“Every scientist agrees today that Mars at some point in time in the past had an atmosphere not very unlike Earth’s. And so if one were to propose the idea that at some point intelligent life inhabited Mars, what if one of the places that they escaped to was planet Earth?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

Is it possible that there is, in fact, a profound connection between Earth and Mars? And could locating a second sphinx be the key to unlocking the secrets about our ancient past? And if so, is it possible that there is yet another sphinx that holds the key, one that’s even closer to home?

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