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Egyptologists
orthodoxy on the face of the Great Sphinx is it is the
head of the pharaoh
Khafre or possibly that of his son, the Pharaoh
Djedefra, which would date its construction from the
fourth dynasty (2723 BC–2563 BC). |
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Earlier archeologists such as
E. A. Wallis Budge and
Gaston Maspero differed |
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Pharaoh Tuthmosis IV
created the the
Dream Stele. He also completed an
obelisk first started by
Thutmose III, which, at 32 m (105 feet), was the
tallest obelisk ever erected in Egypt, at the Temple of
Karnak.[15]
It was transported to Rome by a later Roman Emperor and
today stands at
Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican. |
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Deluge (mythology) and
Deluge (prehistoric) |
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In
Sri Lanka the sphinx is known as narasimha or
man-lion. As a sphinx it has the body of a lion and the
head of a human being, and is not to be confused with
Narasimha, the 4th reincarnation of the deity
Mahavishnu; this
avatara or incarnation is depicted with a human body
and the head of a lion. The "sphinx" narasimha is part
of the Buddhist tradition and functions as a guardian of
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Egyptian_
chronology
While a "Conventional
Egyptian chronology" is available, which centralizes
the several possible dates it is not possible to
reliably do
Ancient Egypt. Synchronisms with other
chronologies. The most important of these is with
the
Assyrian and
Babylonian chronologies, although synchronisms with
the
Hittites, ancient Palestine, and in the final period
with
ancient Greece are also used. Synchronisms with
inscriptions relating to the burial of
Apis bulls begin as early as the reign of
Amenhotep III and continue into
Ptolemaic times, but there is a significant gap in
the record between
Ramesses XI and the 23rd year of
Osorkon II
Astronomical synchronisms.
The best known of these is the
Sothic cycle, but
History of ancient Egypt before 5000 BC is scant
although archaeological evidence indicates that a
distinct culture was developing in the
Nile valley from before 5100 BC. What is now called
the Pharaonic Period is dated from around
3100 BC, when
Egypt became a unified state. The Predynastic
Period of Egypt (prior to
5100 BCE) is traditionally the period between the
Early
Neolithic and the beginning of the Pharaonic
monarchy beginning with King
Narmer.
Twenty some
archaeological sites in upper Nubia evidence a
grain-grinding
Neolithic
culture called the
Qadan culture, which practiced
farming along the
Nile during the beginning of the Sahaba Daru nile
phase, when desiccation in the Sahara caused residents
of the Libyan oases to retreat into the Nile valley.
However, the period from 11,000 to 8,000 BCE has left
very little in the way of archaeological evidence.
However, around 8,000 BCE Neolithic settlements have
been found all over Egypt.[3]
Gerzean culture coincided with a
significant drop in rainfall,[15]
and farming produced the vast majority of food,[14]
although paintings from this time indicate that hunting
was not entirely forgone. With increased food supplies,
Egyptians adopted a greatly more sedentary
lifestyle, and larger settlements grew to cities with
about 5,000 residents.[14]
It was in this time that Egyptian city dwellers stopped
building out of reeds, and used the mudbrick, which was
developed in the Amratian Period, en masse to build
their cities.[14]
Egyptian stone tools, while still in use, moved from
bifacial construction to ripple-flaked construction,
copper was used to make all kinds of tools as well,[14]
and also for the first time, copper weaponry turns up.[9]
Silver, gold, lapis, and faience were used ornamentally,[14]
and the grinding palettes used for eye-paint since the
Badarian period began to be adorned with relief
carvings.[9]
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Théophile Obenga
part of the team at the 1974 UNESCO colloquium in Cairo
on “The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Decipherment
of Meroitic Writing” that effectively affirmed the
African origin of Egyptian civilization by proven the
genetic linguistic relationship between the language
spoken by the ancient Egyptians and modern Black African
languages.
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Great Flood of 10,500 BC |
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Greek mythology knows three floods. Among
them, the
Ogygian
("primeval", "primal", "earliest dawn") flood
covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country
remained without kings until the reign of
Cecrops[5].
Plato
in his
Laws, Book III, estimates that this flood occurred 10,000
years before his time. Also in
Timaeus
(22) and in
Critias
(111-112) he describes the "great deluge of all"
during the
10th millennium BCE. In addition, the texts report that
"many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand
years" since Athens and
Atlantis
were preeminent[6].
The theory of the
flood in the Aegean Basin, proposed that a great flood
occurred towards the end of the
Pleistocene. This flood coincides with the end of the last
ice age, estimated approximately 10,000 years ago, when the
sea level
has risen as much as 130
metres. The map on the right shows how the region would look
12,000 years ago, when the sea level would be 100 meters lower
than today. The geological findings support the hypothesis that
the Ogygian Deluge may well be based on a real event. |
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The Great Sphinx was believed to stand as a guardian
of the
Giza Plateau, where it faces the rising sun. It was the focus of
solar worship in the
Old Kingdom, centered in the adjoining temples built around the time
of its probable construction. Its animal form, the
lion, has
long been a symbol associated with the sun in
ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Images depicting the Egyptian
king in the form of a lion smiting his enemies appear as far back as the
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. During the
New Kingdom, the Sphinx became more specifically associated with the
god Hor-em-akhet (Greek
Harmachis) or Horus at the Horizon, which represented the
Pharaoh
in his role as the Shesep ankh of
Atum
(living image of Atum). A temple was built to the northeast of the
Sphinx by King
Amenhotep II, nearly a thousand years after its construction,
dedicated to the cult of Horemakhet.
The
Great Flood is a common feature of the world's cultural heritage and
may indicate an association with the Aquarius (the Water Bearer)
counterpart of this Age.
Further information:
Deluge (mythology) and
Noah's Ark
The Age of Leo-Aquarius marks the end of the
Atlantean Epoch, according to the
Esoteric Christian and Gnostic
esoteric teachings. The Atlanteans are said to have inhabited the
basins covered by a dense, drenching fog (i.e. what is currently know as
the Atlantic
oceanic basin) which condensed into rain and flooded the basis of
the Earth (recorded in all major cultures as the myth of the
Great Flood)
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Upon the coronation of Haile Selassie I as emperor and in
keeping with the traditions of the Solomonic dynasty that had
reigned in highland Ethiopia since 1297, Haile Selassie's throne
name and title were joined to the imperial motto, so that all
court documents and seals bore the inscription: "The Lion of the
Tribe of Judah has conquered! Haile Selassie I, Elect of God
King of Kings of Ethiopia." The use of this formula dates to the
dynasty's Solomonic origins, as well as to the Christianized
throne from the period of Ezana; all monarchs being required to
trace their lineage back to Menelik I, who in the Ethiopian
tradition was the offspring of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
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Haile Selassie I
is also considered to be the
religious
symbol
for
God
incarnate
among the
Rastafari movement,
founded in
Jamaica
in the early
1930s.
The Rastafari also call Haile Selassie HIM,
Jah
and Jah Rastafari.
In 1963, Haile Selassie presided over the
establishment of the
Organisation of African Unity, with the new organisation
setting up its headquarters in
Addis Ababa. As the longest serving Head of State then in
power, Haile Selassie was usually given precedence over all
other leaders at most international state events, such as the
celebration of the 2500 years of the
Persian Empire, the summits of the
Non-aligned movement, and the
state funerals of
John F. Kennedy and
Charles de Gaulle. His frequent travels around the world
raised Ethiopia's international image. On
23 November
1974,
60 former high officials of the Imperial government known as
"the Sixty", were executed without trial.[15]
On
5 November
2000,
Haile Selassie was given an Imperial funeral by the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The current
post-communist government refused to give it the status of a
state funeral. Although such prominent Rastafari figures such as
Rita Marley and others participated in the grand funeral,
most Rastafari rejected the event and refused to accept that the
bones were the remains of Haile Selassie.
There remains some debate, particularly within
the
Rastafari movement, as to whether Haile Selassie actually
died at this time. |
“Me only have one ambition,
y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I
like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese,
everyone - that's all.”
---Robert Nesta Marley |
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Reading List for Ancient Egypt & Africa |
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Ancient Egypt the Light of the World - [2 vols.] Gerald Massey
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Gerald Massey's Lectures - Gerald Massey
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African origins of the Major "Western" Religions - Yosef ben-Jochannan
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Black man of the Nile and His Family - Yosef ben-Jochannan
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African origins of the Major World's Religions - Amon Sakaana [Ed]
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African Origins of Civilisation: Myth or Reality? - Cheikh Anta Diop
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Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth - John Jackson
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Man, God & Civilisation - John Jackson
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African Presence in Early Europe - Ivan Van Sertima
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African Presence in Early Asia - Runuko Rashidi, Ivan Van Sertima
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Egypt Revisited - Ivan Van Sertima
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Sex and Race [vol. 1] - J A Rogers
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Gods of the Egyptians - Sir E A Wallis-Budge
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From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt - E A Wallis-Budge
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Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani - E A Wallis-Budge
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The Golden Bough [13 vols.] - James Frazer
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Black Athena [vol. 1] - Martin Bernal |
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The Great Sphinx is the world’s
largest and oldest single stone statues, and most debated. These
questions have collectively earned the title “Riddle of the Sphinx,”
Just how many millennia the
great sphinx has
fascinated humanity? The experts differ by over 7000 years varying from the height of the construction of the
Pyramids of
Giza
during the time of Khafre [2603-2578
B.C.] to the theoretical beginning of a precessional great cycle of
25,920 years saying it references today by pointing to a night sky event
at the opposite end of these days of changes during
the age of Leo about 10,500 BC.
Egyptologists, have done pretty
well for many generations ignoring the connection of the Sphinx and
Ethiopia but Nabta Playa relatively recent 1974 discovery as the
world's earliest known archeoastronomical observatory should move the
Afro centric debate much closer to Ethiopia. This
despite compelling linguistic evidence and the relatively recent
discovery of the earliest Stonehenge like observatory at
Nabta Playa
the evidence that the Egyptians began as an African tribe has not been
given its due according to too many
African academics and authors. Among the many riddles the
Sphinx asks is a distinctive "African," "Nubian," or
"Negroid" aspect which is lacking in the
face of Khafre.
Robert Bauval, a Belgian construction
engineer, with a flair for astronomy was among the first to document how the monuments in the Giza
region on the earth mimic various constellations in the sky. It was this
piece of evidence that the Egyptologists had ignored and still drives to
much of the discussion as we adjust to the new concept of moving from
the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. Is this the
message of the Sphinx?
Together with Graham Hancock, Bauval made the claim in a series of
popular books that the three pyramids align with the bright "belt" stars in the Orion
constellation. Mathematicians and astronomers endorsed his calculation. Hancock makes the following quotes about Bauval’s calculation.
"…the Giza monuments as a whole were so arranged as to provide a picture
of the skies not as they had looked in Fourth Dynasty around 2500 B.C.,
but as they looked…around the year 10,450 B.C." More provocatively
he shows that the Sphinx was built well before the other monuments in
the area as far back as this date but more likely as a
pointer to our own
time where we will face similar patterns of worlds in
collision as polar ice caps melt.
In the early 1990's it was pointed out
that the Sphinx prominently wears evidence of
rainfall erosion. Such erosion could only mean that the Sphinx
is at least 500 hundred years older than nearby pyramids and according
to some was
carved during or before the rains that marked the transition of northern
Africa from the last Ice Age to the present interglacial epoch, a
transition that occurred in the millennia from 11,000 to 3000 BC.
The Sphinx age controversy has been an
unwelcome distraction to mainstream scholars. At the present all they
concede is that the focused attention on the geological and
environmental history of the monument is a good for promoting
preservation. Any claims of undiscovered knowledge have been
wholeheartedly dismissed by the orthodoxy, yet the truth that the stars
communicate continues to be heard from a new branch of science known as
archeoastronomy.
The consensus about the Sphinx is that
a priestly class erected it
for some symbolical purposes. Many exceptional people through history
have seen it as a central landmark of humanity containing
important messages.
The granite
Stela, paced
between the paws by Pharaoh Thutmosis IV of the Fourth Dynasty, visibly
shows us that
many of previous eras believe that there is something magical about this
Sphinx. All the more reason to plan a visit and monitor the
restoration
efforts
Nabta Playa: the oldest night
sky observatory
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Nabta: Older than
Stonehenge
Credit: J. M. Malville (U. Colorado) & F. Wendorf (SMU) et al. |
On a desolate plain in the Egyptian Sahara desert, west of
Aswan, there is a very remote prehistoric site called Nabta
Playa. The site was first discovered in 1974 by a group of
scientists headed by Fred Wendorf, an Anthropology Professor
from Southern Methodist University in Texas. The team had
stopped for a break from their uncomfortable drive from the
Libyan border to the Nile Valley when, as Wendorf stated, “we
were standing there minding our own business, when we noticed
potsherds and other artifacts." About 4,800 years ago there was
another climatic change. The African monsoons shifted south to
approximately the same area that they were prior to 12,000 years
ago. The land became hyper-arid again and caused human
habitation at Nabta to cease. The cattle worshipping people of
Nabta had to migrate to a more livable area.
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Do
these 6 stones represent the 3 stars of Orion's Belt
marking the 25,920 year night sky cycle |
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The research done by the astrophysicist
Thomas G. Brophy suggests that these monoliths might
tell much more. The calendar circle itself is made up of
one doorway that runs north-south, a second that runs
northeast-southwest marking the summer solstice, and six
center stones. Brophy's theory proposes first that three
of the center stones match the belt of Orion at its
minimum tilt and the other three match the shoulder and
head stars of Orion at their maximum tilt. This cycle
repeats approximately every 25,000 years, following the
precession of the equinoxes. The last minimum of Orion's
belt occurred between 6400 BC and 4900 BC, matching the
radio-carbon dating of campfires around the circle.[5] |
Although the area was occupied for more then 5,000 years, the
majority of the stone structures and other artifacts originated
between 7,000 and 6,500 years ago. It was considered by most to
be the height of human occupation at Nabta. approximately 70
miles west of Abu Simbel in the south of Egypt. For the past
5,000 years, the region in the Sahara Desert where the site was
found has been uninhabitable. The ceramic artifacts that have
been recovered are not extensive in number but are considered by
Egyptologists to be some of the oldest ever identified on the
African Continent.
To alleviate water shortages and provide more stability for
larger settlements the early nomadic Nabtans dug deep water
wells. One settlement, which has been excavated from this
urbanization period, contains 18 house structures arranged in
two, or possibly even three, straight lines in an almost
‘Coronation Street’ style. The Nabtans erected five megalithic
alignments all radiating like wheel spokes from a central
cluster of stones.
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these archaeoastronomy based hypothesese. ? |
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- I have applied the totally
disputed tag to the article, pursuant to above and
the ongoing RFC. Hipocrite - «Talk» 04:00, 27
December 2005 (UTC)
- There is no reason that the
article specifically needs to adhere to mainstream
archaeology. In fact, forcing it to would represent
a distinct POV pushing. It should include whatever
content possible that is verifiable, not original
research, and presented in a neutral manner. KV(Talk)
20:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
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Unlike earlier
archeological finds oriented to the sky the
archeoastrologists don't seem to have to fight the
battle against other archeologists. This includes the
fascinating Russian find known as
Arqaim.
At Nabta these claims of
Thomas G. Brophy are
hurting for some peer review by fellow archeoastrologists. Still
it is time for us to simply accept that it is more
likely than not that people who used the night sky the
way we use TV would have noticed a pattern shift of 1º
every 72 years and move on. |
By the 5th millennium BC these peoples had fashioned one of
the world's earliest known archeoastronomical device (roughly
contemporary to the Goseck circle in Germany), about 1000 years
older than but comparable to Stonehenge Research suggests that
it may have been a prehistoric calendar which accurately marks
the summer solstice.
Another stone megalithic structure exists
which consists of a central radial stone and several other
stones in the distance. In interpreting this Brophy found that
the lines made to these stones from the radial stone match the
spots in the sky where the various stars marked by the center
stones in the calendar circle at the time they rose as the
vernal equinox
heliacal rising. In analyzing the varying distances, mulling
through assumptions such as that they represented the brightness
of the stars, he inadvertently found that they matched the
distance of the stars from Earth on a scale of 1 meter = .799
light years within the margin of error for astronomical distances calculated today. But, as long
as there is no technique accessible to Neolithic people known,
with which they could have measured the distances to stars, this
correlation seems to be nothing more than chance coincidence
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Sphinx as Oracle
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The carved stone
oil
lamp was invented during this time. Oil lamps existed previously,
but this type was the first proper continuously-burning lamp. The sphinx
as a Leo
symbol  invokes the idea of a container with a wick hanging over its side, and a
burning plume rising from the wick). Leo is the "fixed fire sign",
corresponding to a continuously-burning lamp. |
Aquarius
and the Great Floods Map of eastern
Mediterranean and
Greece during 10.000 BCE.
We may be heading for another great flood unless humanity can come
together as the prophets continue to ask us. Does the Spinx reference the last
great flood during the time of Leo?
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been
called the sleeping prophet. Cayce had the ability to put
himself into a deep trance. This allowed him to diagnose various
physical illnesses and reveal a treatment. While in these deep
trances, Cayce also spoke of Atlantis, the Sphinx, and Egypt.
He stated in some of his trances that Egypt was the repository
for records of the alleged civilization of Atlantis, about
10,500 B.C. This repository was an underground library, called
the Hall of Records," that contains the wisdom of Atlantis.
Cayce said that during this period this was the first attempt to
restore and add to the Sphinx.
Cayce claims that the Sphinx points in the direction of the
"Hall of Records." His reading states: "There is a chamber or
passage from the right forepaw of the [Sphinx] to this entrance
of the Hall of records, or chamber," [more]
Manly Hall states in his book that
there are many myths and legends surrounding the Sphinx. The most
popular myth was that "…the Sphinx was the true portal [entrance] of the
Great Pyramid…(p. XLII)" Mr. Hall quotes from P. Christian’s book
Historie de la Magie (Paris, 1876). P. Christian states that "The Great
Sphinx of Gizeh served as the entrance to the sacred subterranean
chambers [of the Great Pyramid] in which the trials of the initiate were
to be undergone …(p. XLII)."
".....among
the papers of the late Professor Alberto Tulli, former Director
of the Egyptian section of the Vatican Museum. It is a fragment
from the Royal Annals of Thuthmosis III (circa 1504-1450 B.C.
who preceded the pharoah who added the dream stele to the
sphinx) and when translated tells of a UFO sighting and reads as
follows:
In the year 22, in
the third month of winter, in the sixth hour of the day, the scribes of the
House of Life noticed a circle of fire that was coming from the sky [...] From
the mouth it emitted a foul breath. It had no head. Its body was one rod long
and one rod wide.¹ It had no voice. And from that the hearts of the scribes
became confused and they threw themselves down on their bellies [...] then they
reported the thing to the Pharaoh [...] His Majesty ordered [...] has been
examined [...] and he was meditating on what had happened, that it was recorded
in the scrolls of the House of the Life. Now after some days had passed, these
things became more and more numerous in the skies. Their splendor exceeded that
of the sun and extended to the limits of the four angles of the sky [...] High
and wide in the sky was the position from which these fire circles came and
went. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after
supper. Then these fire circles ascended higher into the sky and they headed
toward the south. Fish and birds then fell from the sky. A marvel never before
known since the foundation of their land [...] And Pharaoh caused incense to be
brought to make peace with Earth² [...] and what happened was ordered to be
written in the Annals of the House of Life so that it be remembered for all time
forward.
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We all feel a sense of wonder about
the stars where we are told the rules of everyday time and space do
not apply. The Egyptians and Mayans may have had priests among their
number who could navigate this world as souls. There may not be
another date as potent as 21DEC12 in our lifetime to bring focus to
ourselves as the consciousness of humanity representing the mind of
our solar system in a vast universe, so come on down to the 2012
beach and enjoy the sun and waves. Imagination is more helpful than
science while you are here. |
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Stargate Cipher 2012 @ goroadachi.com |
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Contact, Life On Mars, Holy Grail, Ultra Technology& Mayan Calendar
By Goro Adachi, 2004 |
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Join Dr. Paul A.
LaViolette
as he takes you on a tour through the Orion Nebula Sphinx Stargate, |
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World in Collision theory |
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2012 @greatdreams.com
with an excellent 2012 link list |
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We put together two star pages one
on the brightest stars & astronomy and another, more fun page
which might move you to appreciate how that as reflections of the
universe our planet's changing position as we move into Aquarius
will put us under the spell of the Unicorn |
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The Great Sphinx is a statue with the face of a man
and the body of a lion. Carved out of the surrounding limestone bedrock,
it is 57 metres (185 feet) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and has a height of
20 m (65 ft), making it the largest single-stone statue in the world.
The Great Sphinx has long been commonly accepted by Egyptologists
to represent the likeness of King
Khafra
(also known by the Hellenised version of his name, Chephren) who
is often credited as the builder as well. This would place the time of
construction somewhere between 2520 BC and 2494 BC. Because the limited
evidence giving provenance to Khafra is ambiguous and circumstantial,
the idea of who built the Sphinx, and when, continues to be the subject
of debate.
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The Message of the Sphinx
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Using sophisticated computer simulations of ancient
skies, pioneering archeoastrologists
Graham Hancock and
Robert Bauval showed that the lion is a reference to the constellation of Leo
during his zodiac age in the year 10,500 BC. They call this the
Egyptian's creation story, the Zep Tepi or "first time."
It was from the 'womb' of Isis-Sirius that was born the divine
child, Horus. |
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date of 10,500 B.C. is chosen because they maintain this is the
only time in the precession of the equinoxes when the
astrological age was Leo and when that constellation rose
directly east of the Sphinx at the vernal equinox. |
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Before the 12th millennium BC Sirius
was below the horizon line as seen from the region of Cairo/Giza.
It made its first appearance in the skies at that place in
c.10,500 BC. Then it had a declination of about 58 degrees 43',
which meant it would have just been visible in the south about
1.5 degree above the horizon line. For early man to witnessing
the 'birth' of such a bright star must have been a very
impressive sight rich with meaning and messages from the gods. |
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Hancock and Bauval also suggest that in this
epoch the angles between the three stars of Orion’s Belt and the horizon
was an “exact match” to the angles between the three main Giza pyramids.
 The
most well-known debate[4]
was generated by the works of two writers, Graham Hancock and
Robert Bauval, in a series of separate and collaborative
publications from the late 1980s onwards. Their claims include
that the construction of the Great Sphinx and the monument at
Tiwanaku in modern Bolivia was begun in 10,500 BC; that the
Sphinx's lion-shape is a definitive reference to the
constellation of Leo;
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Pointing to the Precession |
Herodotus (5th
Cent. BC) in his "History" (Book II) recounts the
Egyptian astronomer's report of the time span of their
observations.
"During this time there were four occasions when the sun
rose out of his wonted place - twice rising where he now
sets, twice setting where he now rises."
This could well be reference to complete cycles of the
25,920 year precession before the night sky repeats
itself. If precession - then we could be talking about
an oral history stretching back 39,000 years - |
and that the layout and orientation of the Sphinx, the Giza pyramid
complex and the Nile River is an accurate reflection or “map” of
the constellations of Leo, Orion’s Belt and the Milky Way,
respectively.
He showed that the Sphinx facing
east or the raising sun is a marker for the spring equinox. Now
Leo is the zodiac sign that conforms to a lion’s body. The sun
rose in the constellation or house of Leo during the time of the
spring equinox 10,500 B.C. This was also at the same time the
Orion constellation lined up with the pyramids and other
monuments had aligned with various other constellations
Their
initial claims regarding the alignment of the Giza pyramids with
Orion (“…the three pyramids were an unbelievably precise
terrestrial map of the
three stars of Orion’s belt”— Hancock’s
Fingerprints of the Gods, 1995, p.375) are later joined
with speculation about the age of the Sphinx (Hancock and Bauval,
Keeper of Genesis, published 1997 in the U.S. as The
Message of the Sphinx). By 1998’s The Mars Mystery,
they contend:
…we have demonstrated with a substantial
body of evidence that the pattern of stars that is “frozen”
on the ground at Giza in the form of the three pyramids and
the Sphinx represents the disposition of the constellations
of Orion and Leo as they looked at the moment of sunrise on
the spring equinox during the astronomical “Age of Leo”
(i.e., the epoch in which the Sun was “housed” by Leo on the
spring equinox.) Like all precessional ages this was a
2,160-year period. It is generally calculated to have fallen
between the Gregorian calendar dates of 10,970 and
8810 BC. (op. cit., p.189)
A date of 10,500 B.C. is chosen because they
maintain
this is
the only time in the precession of the equinoxes when the
astrological age was Leo and when that constellation rose
directly east of the Sphinx at the vernal equinox.
This time period coincidentally also
coincides with the American psychic Edgar Cayce’s “dating” of
Atlantis. These and other theories are used to support the
overall belief in an advanced and ancient, but now vanished,
global progenitor civilization.
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Many of the most prominent early Egyptologists and
excavators of the Giza plateau believed the Sphinx and its neighboring
temples to pre-date the 4th dynasty. British Egyptologist E. A. Wallis
Budge stated in his 1904 book Gods of the Egyptians:
This marvelous object [the Great Sphinx] was in
existence in the days of Khafre, or Khephren, and it is probable
that it is a very great deal older than his reign and that it dates
from the end of the archaic period.
French Egyptologist and Director General of
Excavations and Antiquities for the Egyptian government, Gaston Maspero,
who surveyed the Sphinx in the 1920s asserts:
The Sphinx stela shows, in line thirteen, the
cartouche of Khephren. I believe that to indicate an excavation
carried out by that prince, following which, the almost certain
proof that the Sphinx was already buried in sand by the time of
Khafre and his predecessors.[15]
Notwithstanding this, the Sphinx’ link with Khafra
continues to be the view most widely held by Egyptologists although just
in 2004 a 20-year study suggested the
sphinx was a close relative of Khufu.
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Hall of
Records
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Tunnels & Chambers Under the Great Sphinx |
In his Natural History,
Pliny wrote:
In front of them [i.e. The Giza Pyramids]
is the Sphinx, which deserves to be described even more than
they, and yet the Egyptians have passed it over in silence.
The inhabitants of the region regard it as a deity. They are
of the opinion that a King Harmais is buried inside it...
[Book 36 XVII]
 But
it was Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet," who popularized the
idea of a secret chamber associated with the Sphinx. According
to Cayce, there is a "Hall of Records" with an entrance to be
found between the paws of the Sphinx. In answer to the request,
"Give in detail what the sealed room contains," Cayce answered:
A record of Atlantis from the beginning of those periods
when the Spirit took form, or began the encasements in that
land; and the developments of the peoples throughout their
sojourn; together with the record of the first destruction,
and the changes that took place in the land; with the record
of the sojournings of the peoples and their varied
activities in other lands, and a record of the meetings of
all the nations or lands, for the activities in the
destruction of Atlantis; and the building of the pyramid of
initiation, together with whom, what, and where the opening
of the records would come, that are as copies from the
sunken Atlantis. For with the change, it [Atlantis] must
rise again. In position, this lies -- as the sun rises from
the waters -- as the line of the shadows (or light) falls
between the paws of the Sphinx; that was set later as the
sentinel or guard and which may not be entered from the
connecting chambers from the Sphinx's right paw until the
time has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in
this sphere of man's experience. Then [it lies] between the
Sphinx and the river. [378-16; Oct 29, 1933]
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"Egyptian
civilization was not a development, it was a legacy"
"We are told
that the evolution of human civilization is a linear
process-that it goes from stupid cave man to smart old
us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste. But
the proof is the Sphinx…means that there must have been,
… high and sophisticated civilization-just as legends
affirms (Graham Hancock The Message of the
Sphinxp. 358)
"Sacred Cow makes the best
hamburger." |
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---John
Anthony West
@ jawest.net/
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In a series of expeditions
between 1991 and 1993 led by John Anthony West, an independent
Egyptologist, scientific investigators conducted geological and
seismic surveys around the Great Sphinx of
Egypt along with other researchers.
The team's conclusion: The pattern of erosion
on the Sphinx indicates that it was carved at the end of the
last Ice Age, when heavy rains fell on the eastern Sahara -
perhaps more than 12,000 years ago.
This contrasts starkly with the 'orthodox'
Egyptological dating for the Sphinx of around 4,500 years ago.
Seismography: The seismic survery indicated
the existence of several unexplored tunnels and cavities in the
bedrock beneath the Sphinx, including a large rectangluar
chamber at a depth of some 25 feet beneath the monument's front
paws.
This film linked the Sphinx to Atlantis and
suggested that the chamber beneath the paws might contain the
legendary 'Hall of Records' of Atlantis.
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Electromagnetic Waseda Report
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Tokyo:
Waseda University, 1987 |
- A. South of the Sphinx. The
Japanese indicated the existence of a hollow 2.5 m.
to 3 m. underground. And, they found indications of
a groove on the Sphinx body that extends beneath the
Sphinx.
- B. North of the Sphinx. The
Japanese found another groove similar to the
southern one which may indicate that maybe there is
a tunnel underneath the Sphinx connecting the south
and north grooves.
- C. In front of the two paws of
the Sphinx. The Japanese found another hollow space
about 1 m. to 2 m. below surface. Again, they
believe that it might extend underneath the Sphinx.
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 It
appears that there may indeed be undiscovered chambers
and/or passageways in the area of the Sphinx. Though the
Giza Plateau has been well-excavated, new discoveries
are made there each year. ---Catchpenny
Mysteries © copyright 2000 by Larry Orcutt. |
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The
chamber beneath the Sphinx by catchpenny.org
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Waseda Report
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Known
Sphinx Passages || Zahi Hawass' 1997
NOVA
interview. ||
The Rosicrucian View |
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Erosion Dating
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Egypt experienced periods of heavy rainfall in
the millennia that marked the post-glacial northward shift of the
temperate zone. This period lasted from about 10,000 to 5000 BCE and
by its end the Sahara had turned from green savanna into a desert.
Orthodox archaeologists refused even to consider West's hypothesis.
But in 1990 West persuaded Robert M. Schoch, a geologist at Boston
University, to examine the question. Curious, Schoch agreed and the
two visited Giza in June 1990.
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| There are no other stone
monuments nearby or in Egypt with a similar erosion which
show the rounded and undulating weathering pattern |
| If erosion
by water is your choice, it has to be rainwater
over a long period. |
| By the time of Khafre,
rainfall in Egypt was very similar to its current level, and
could not possibly account for the deep erosion on the
surface of the Sphinx. |
| Dr Schoch
made his ideas accessible to the world of Egyptology in an
article in the summer 1992 issue of the American magazine
KMT which takes its title from one of the ancient Egyptian
names for Egypt, Kemet, with inserted vowels, meaning the
'Black Land' - the fertile soil watered by the Nile |
| Egypt's last time period
where there was a significant amount of rainfall ended
during the 3rd millennium BC. Shoch claims that the amount
of water erosion they feel that the Sphinx has experienced
indicates a construction date no later than the 6th
millennium BC or 5th millennium BC. |
| New pollution variables
in the last century is used by the debunkers to dismiss this
evidence |
On a second trip to Giza in April 1991, West and
Schoch brought Thomas Dobecki, a geophysicist from Houston, Texas,
to carry out a seismic survey of the enclosure foundations to
determine whether the underlying rock showed evidence of
precipitation damage. The degree of subsurface weathering could be
measured by bouncing sound waves off of deeper layers of rock. With
the permission of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, the team
carried out sound-wave tests through the floor of the enclosure.
Schoch and Dobecki discovered that the enclosure
floor in front and alongside of the Sphinx had weathered to a depth
of six to eight feet. They also discovered that the back of the
enclosure had weathered only half as far. Schoch agreed that the
floor behind the Sphinx had been excavated during the Old Kingdom
but he concluded that the sides and front of the monument were twice
as old. Assuming a linear rate of weathering, Schoch estimated the
date of the Sphinx and most of the enclosure to between 5000 and
7000 BCE, far earlier than the date of 2500 assumed by archaeology.
Schoch noted that weathering could have been non-linear, slowing as
it got deeper because of the increasing mass of rock overhead. On
this assumption, the Sphinx could have been significantly older than
7000 BCE.
Egyptologists dated the Sphinx to Khafra from
several kinds of evidence. A stela from the New Kingdom reign of
Thutmose IV (1401-1391 BCE) stands in front of the monument, and an
inscription that has since flaked off contained the first syllable
of Khafra's name. Statues of Khafra found in his Valley Temple also
seemed to associate the complex with Khafra, and the Sphinx head was
assumed to be his as well. Finally, the causeway from Khafra's
pyramid was built into the Khafra Valley Temple.
To the problem of archaeological context for an
earlier Sphinx, Schoch replied that urban centers had existed in the
eastern Mediterranean at Catal Huyuk from the seventh millennium and
at Jericho from the ninth millennium BCE. At Jericho there were
large stone walls and a thirty foot tower. No such settlement had
been found in Egypt itself but clearly there needs to be a better
concept accepted of human knowledge before the Bible dating of 4000
BC. |
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THE GREAT SPHINX CONTROVERSY
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by Dr. Robert M. Schoch © 1995 |
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"The dating of the Great Sphinx seems to be a
very touchy subject for most modern Egyptologists. Despite the
fact that some of the early founders of modern Egyptology (such as
Sir Flinders Petrie, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, and Sir G. C. Maspero)
were open to the notion that the Sphinx may be older than the Fourth
Dynasty pyramids that it seems to guard, and ancients from New
Kingdom Egyptians to Romans (circa 1400 B.C. to 400 A.D.) generally
thought that the Sphinx was older than the pyramids, modern
Egyptologists have galvanized around the dogma that the Great Sphinx
was built by Khafre, circa 2500 B.C"...
They "know" when the Sphinx was built, and no
evidence can overthrow their long‑cherished beliefs. Since
they cannot refute the evidence, it is dismissed as not
relevant. The main tactic used to counter my heresy was to try to
dismiss me as a quack and non‑ person
A large part of the problem
seemed to be that I was an "outsider" (my Ph.D. is in geology and
geophysics from Yale), and off the record I was even told by an
Egyptologist that there were plenty of rocks for me to study other
than those on the Giza Plateau where the Sphinx stands. [more
@ robertschoch.net]
REBUTTAL
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Giza
before the Fourth Dynasty |
Geologist
Colin Reader believes that a dating earlier than the 4th
dynasty but still firmly within the dynastic period is the
best solution to reconciling the geological and
archaeological evidence.
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"After over five years of
research, it is my conviction that the geological
evidence is not consistent with the attribution of
the monument to Khafre or, for that matter, to any
other pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty." |
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Tuthmosis IV
Dream Stele located between
Sphinx's Paws
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Immediately in front of the Sphinx lie the ruins of a small
temple. Its principal feature was a colonnaded court paved with
alabaster. It dates from the same
period
as Great Sphinx statue. Built on a ground plan measuring 147
feet in each direction and rising to a height of 43 feet. Two
doorways pierced the east wall, around each doorway was carved a
band of hieroglyphic inscription giving the name and title of
the King, but only the last words "beloved of (the Goddess)
Bastet and beloved of (the Goddess) Hathor are preserved, no
other inscriptions or relieves occur anywhere else in the
building. The Pharaoh Tuthmosis IV, ruled during Egypt famous
18th Dynasty, and created the largest obelisk ever made which is now on display
at the Vatican in Rome [more] |
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"Now the statue of the very great Khepri (the
Great Sphix) restin in this place, great of fame, sacred of
 respect, the shade of Ra resting on him. Memphis and every city
on its two sides came to him, their arms in adoration to his
face, bearing great offerings for his ka. One of these days it
happened that price Tuthmosis came traveling at the time of
midday. He rested in the shadow of the great god. (Sleep and)
dream (took possession of me) at the moment the sun was at
zenith. Then he found the majesty of this noble god speaking
from his own mouth like a father speaks to his son, and saying,
'Look at me, observe me, my son Tuthmosis. I am your father,
Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum. I shall give to you the kingship
(upon the land before the living)... (Behold, my condition is
like one in illness), all (my limbs being ruined). The sand of
the desert, upon which I used to be, (now) confronts me; and it
is in order to cause that you do what is in my heart that I have
waited." |
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Hamlet's Mill |
An
Essay on Myth and
the Frame of Time (1969) |
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Commentary
by
John Major Jenkins |
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"Archaeologists of myth" is a
strange statement, but what discipline does this study belong
to? It certainly isn't astronomy, because astronomy's
technicians have nothing to do with ancient myth. Is it
ethnology, mythology, or science?
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Much of humanity's oldest myths
were derived from celestial observations. |
The burgeoning field of
archaeoastronomy perhaps gets closest to the mark. Since the
1970s, two different academic journals have been devoted to
elucidating and exploring the topic of archaeoastronomy. Norman Lockyear pioneered this field in the late 1800s with the
publication of The Dawn of Astronomy in 1894. The next real
advance in this field came with the Stonehenge studies of Gerald
S. Hawkins in the 1960s. As a result of Hawkins' new "astro-archaeology"
picking up where Lockyear left off, and a growing academic
interest in what the field had to offer, Giorgio Santillana saw
fit to arrange the reprinting of Lockyear's The Dawn of
Astronomy in 1964, for the occasion of its 70th anniversary.
Much of humanity's oldest myths were derived from celestial
observations. This is probably the most important contribution
that Hamlet's Mill offers, one that has been suppressed and
scoffed at for much of this century. In addition to its
ancillary use in archaeoastronomy, this concept is being
reclaimed as a guiding principle for those who study Maya
mythology. The Maya, the most mathematically and calendrically
advanced culture of the ancient New World, also preserved
complex myths which are now being interpreted as referential to
astronomical features and processes.
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| Conclusion |
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Since humanity was born in
Africa, and Egypt is the planet's oldest civilization it is not too much
to ask that academics acknowledge the likelihood of African and
particularly Ethiopian influences within Egyptian cosmology.
The sphinx like pyramids are shared
dream images of the collective unconscious known as archetypes.
Archetypes are the language of dreams which communicate collective as
well as individual knowledge. Today we are searching for new collective
dreams which have the power to unite humanity and prevent evil from
destroying the planet as we know it.
A tall order began with many
steps. For starters we need to begin our history earlier than
most learn; about 6,000 years ago with the Christian stories of
Adam and Eve as well as Noah's Arc. Humanity’s tradition of
passing on history is
much older than too many have learned and begins with the stars.
Before TV-- before temples, the most everyday object of
fascination would be the night sky. It is not hard to accept
that the night sky which allowed the best and brightest to navigate
across great distances of land and water would be perceived to shift 1º every 72
years. Indeed our current system of time and global measurement using
longitude and latitude has no progenitor explained by historians.
Knowledge of the precession is a once and future central
organizing principle of humanity.
Among the greatest
contributions the Egyptians can make to us today and which continues to
inform the mythically attuned sciences is that we are citizens of the
universe or as the Egyptian's put it; children of the sky goddess Nut. |
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During the eighteenth dynasty, it was called "Horus of the
Horizon" and "Horus of the Necropolis", the sun god that stands
above the horizon. |
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Carved out of a natural limestone outcrop, the
Sphinx is 19.8 metres (65 feet) high and 73.2 metres (240 feet)
long. It is located a short distance from the Great Pyramid. |
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PROVERBS FROM
TEMPLES
The kingdom of heaven is within you; and whosoever shall
know himself shall find it. |
This time period coincidentally also
coincides with the American psychic Edgar Cayce’s “dating” of
Atlantis. These and other theories are used to support the
overall belief in an advanced and ancient, but now vanished,
global progenitor civilization.
[more] |
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In South India the "sphinx" is known as
purushamriga (Sanskrit) or purushamirukam (Tamil). This means
human-beast. It is found depicted in sculptural art in temples
and palaces where it serves an apotropaic purpose, just like the
"sphinxes" in other parts of the ancient world. It is said by
the tradition to take away the sins of the devotees when they
enter a temple and to ward off evil in general. It is therefore
often found in a strategic position on the gopuram or temple
gateway, or near the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum. |
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Celestial Year = 25,920 years. |
| 72 years
(and 7 + 2 = 9), 2160 years (and 2 +1 +6 +0 = 9), and 25,920
years (and 2 + 5 + 9 + 2 + 0 = 18, and 1 +8 = 9).
And 25,920 divided by the divine Sumerian number 60 is
432 (and 4 + 3 + 2 = 9). |
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King Tut |
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In 1922, Howard Carter, an English archeologist,
“discovered” the tomb of this young king who had ruled Egypt
about 3300 years ago, from 1336 to 1327 B.C.
Today this lesser boy ruler, known for riches never purloined by
grave robbers is the focus of race relations between a Euro
centric view and multicultural view which holds that world
history needs to acknowledge a prominent role of Africa in what
was the longest living and most influential culture of the last
three great years of the precession. [more] |
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Facial Analysis
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Detective Frank Domingo, senior forensics artist with the New
York City Police Department used on facial photographs are
not unlike methods orthodontists and surgeons use to study
facial disfigurements. From the right lateral tracing of the
statue's worn profile a pattern of bimaxillary prognathism is
clearly detectable. |
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This is an anatomical condition of forward
development in both jaws, more frequently found in people of
African ancestry than in those from Asian or Indo-European
stock. The carving of Chephren in the Cairo Museum has the
facial proportions expected of a proto-European.
Thus, the Sphinx is likely a facial representation of a black
African. Considering that the peopling of ancient Egypt derived
from an ancestral mixture of Africans and Mediterraneans, facial
soft-tissue analysis of this fabled man-lion would support a
much earlier origin for the Sphinx, when Africans may have
dominated the region. ---SHELDON PECK Newton, Mass., July
3, 1992 In a letter
to the NY Times. The writer is an orthodontist.
more from Dr. robertschoch.net |
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Academic Movement |
The Sphinx for many years was held by academics
to resemble Khafre, the pharaoh who built one of the nearby
pyramids of Giza. and 12,000 ago when the last ice age ended.
However this is no longer appears to be the case.
In 2004, French Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev
announced the results of a 20-year reexamination of historical
records and uncovering of new evidence that suggest the Great
Sphinx may have been the work of the little known Pharaoh
Djedefre, Khafra's half brother and a son of Khufu (Cheops), the
builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Dobrev suggests it was
built by
Djedefre in the image of his father Khufu, identifying him
with the sun god Ra in order to restore respect for their
dynasty. |
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Restoration
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In the 1980's, a carefully planned restoration of
the Sphinx was in progress. Over 6 years, more than 2,000 limestone blocks were
added to the body of the sphinx and chemicals were injected. This treatment did
not work. It just flaked away along with parts of the original rock. Later,
various mortars and many workers who were not trained in restoration worked for
six months to repair it. In 1988 the left shoulder crumbled and blocks fell off.
Present attempts at restoration are under the control of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities' archaeologists. They are concentrating on draining away subsoil
seepage which is damaging the rock. They are also repairing the damaged shoulder
with smaller blocks and staying with the original size.
The sand has been its savior, since, being built of soft sandstone, it would
have disappeared long ago had it not been buried for much of its
existence. Nevertheless, the statue is crumbling today because of the wind,
humidity and the smog from Cairo |
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Fast Facts |
The word "sphinx", which means 'strangler', was first given by
the Greeks to a fabulous creature which had the head of a woman, the body of a
lion and the wings of a bird. In Egypt, there are numerous sphinxes,
usually with the head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion.
There are, however, sphinxes with ram heads that are associated with the god
Amun.
Pieces of the Sphinx's massive beard found by excavation adorn
the British Museum in London and the Cairo Museum. The human head is on a scale
of about 30:1, while the lion body is on the smaller scale of 22:1. There are
three passages into or under the Sphinx, two of them of obscure origin. The one
of known cause is a short dead-end shaft behind the head drilled in the
nineteenth century. No other tunnels or chambers in or under the Sphinx are
known to exist. |
"Ethiopia produces Lynxes in great numbers, and Sphinxes with
brown hair and a pair of udders on the breast, and many other
monstrosities."
--- Pliny the
Elder, Natural History 8. 72 (trans. Rackham) (Roman
encyclopedia C1st A.D.) |
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Prehistory in Egypt |
|
Neolithic, from 10th
millennium BC
Shipping and
Agriculture, from 8th millennium BC
Copper Age and
large-scale
Stone
Construction, from 6th millennium BC
- ca.
6th millennium BC:
Metal replacing
stone -- farming/hunting
equipment,
jewelry;
tanning animal skins; intricate
basket-weaving
- ca.
6th millennium BC: possible early
Alchemy as evidenced by common knowledge of
animal-skin
tanning
- ca.
5500 BC:
Stone-roofed subterranean chambers and other
subterranean complexes in
Nabta Playa containing buried
sacrificed cattle prelude
Hathor belief in
Ancient Egypt
- ca.
5000 BC:
Archaeoastronomical
stone
megalith in
Nabta Playa, world's earliest known
astronomy
[3]
- ca.
5000 BC:
Badarian contacts with
Syria;
furniture,
tableware, models of rectangular
houses,
pots,
dishes,
cups,
bowls,
vases,
figurines,
combs
- ca.
4500 BC:
Geometric
spatial designs adorning
Naqada
pottery
[4]
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Plato's The Republic, Boox IX reads: |
"Let
us make an image of the soul, that may have his own
words presented before his eyes.
Of what sort?
An ideal image of the soul, like the composite creations
of ancient mythology, such as the Chimera or Scylla or
Cerberus, and there are many others in which two or more
different natures are said to grow into one.
There are said of have been such unions.
Then do you now model the form of a multitudinous,
many-headed monster, having a ring of heads of all
manner of beasts, tame and wild, which he is able to
generate and metamorphose at will.
You suppose marvellous powers in the artist; but, as
language is more pliable than wax or any similar
substance, let there be such a model as you propose.
Suppose now that you make a second form as of a lion,
and a third of a man, the second smaller than the first,
and the third smaller than the second.
That, he said, is an easier task; and I have made them
as you say.
And now join them, and let the three grow into one.
That has been accomplished.
Next fashion the outside of them into a single image, as
of a man, so that he who is not able to look within, and
sees only the outer hull, may believe the beast to be a
single human creature. I have done so, he said.
And now, to him who maintains that it is profitable for
the human creature to be unjust, and unprofitable to be
just, let us reply that, if he be right, it is
profitable for this creature to feast the multitudinous
monster and strengthen the lion and the lion-like
qualities, but to starve and weaken the man, who is
consequently liable to be dragged about at the mercy of
either of the other two; and he is not to attempt to
familiarize or harmonize them with one another-- he
ought rather to suffer them to fight and bite and devour
one another." |
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Plato's ability to combine science and mysticism is
without peer. Only C.J. Jung approaches in the ability
to perceive the how layers shrouded in the mists beyond
science affect the day to day |
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Herodotus referred to
Bastet as Mistress of the Oracle. Robert Graves, in his book,
The White Goddess, describes an oracular cave shrine in
Ireland in which, before the coming of St. Patrick, a slender
black cat reclined on a silver chair and gave vituperative
answers to people who tried to deceive it. [more] |
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