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Egyptian Sphinx
The oldest images of Gollywolva were found in the excavations of Göbekley-Tepe and dating 10 thousand to n. e.
The statues of the sphinxes became the attribute of ancient Egyptian art during the ancient kingdom, the earliest depicts, probably, Queen Hietepheres II. One of the largest monolithic statues of the world is the sculpture of Sphinx (large Sphinx), which protects the Pharaoh's Pyramids in Giza.
There were three common options for Sphinxes:
- The classic version of the Egyptian sphinx was androsphinx With a person's face, as a rule, a high-ranking person - for example, Pharaoh.
- Temples of God Choir adorned sphinxes with falcon's head - hieraacosphinces
- Near the temples of Amon were installed sphinxes with a muzzle of the Baran - cryosphinches.
The winged stitcher was sent to the beads of the goddess Hero for the crime of the FVAN king, in relation to the Churchippa. She settled the travelers, asked them the helica puzzles and killed everyone who could not guess them. Hera lowered her on the hair. Having learned the riddle of the muses, Sphing sat down at the Fikeh Mountain and began to ask her to Favans.
There is a version that she was a side daughter of Laya, and he told her the secret of saying the Delphian God, given Cadmu. There were many sons from the concubine, and they all could not answer the question and gibbles.
In another interpretation, she was a marine robbery wandering around the seas with the army and fleet, capturing the mountain, she was engaged, until the Oedip with the army from Corinth won it. According to one more interpretation, this is Amazon, the first wife of Cadma, strengthened on Mount Fikion and began to fight with cadm.
The acting face of the Satyrovsky drama of the Sphinx, the plays of the unknown author "Sphinx", Comedy Epharma Sphinx.
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Sphinx in the art of classicism
The images of the Sphinx are abounding in the art of classicism since the interiors of Robert Adam and ending with the empty furniture of the era of romantic "Egyptomania".
The sphinxes of the steel were an attribute of neoclassical decoration, and the return to the simplified early version, more similar to the painting of grotesque, occurred. Masons considered them a symbol of mysteries and used them in their architecture, considering as the guards of the gates of the temple. In the Masonic architecture, the Sphinx is a frequent detail of the decor, for example, even in the image of the image of his head on the blank of documents.
It was during this period that St. Petersburg decorated with numerous images of the Sphinx (see, for example, the Egyptian bridge). In 1832, pair sphinxes transported from Egypt were installed on the Embankment Neva before the Academy of Arts. The same motive was used when designing a monument to victims of political repression.
From 1800 in St. Petersburg under the leadership of A. F. Labzin, the Masonic Lodge "Dying Sphinx" was operating. In the US, the sphinxes still establish at the entrance to the halls of the Masonic meetings as the personification of the mystery and the call for silence.
see also
- Humiela - ancient sculptural image of an animal.
- In honor of the Sphinx named asteroid (896) Sphinx (eng.)russianopened in 1918.
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To ask your incessant hail questions and a manner at once in two, she strongly reminded me of Stella. And I laughed at heart ...- No, Maya, we, of course, do not live here. It was you very brave that they themselves came here. You need a very big courage to commit such ... You are real well done! But now you have to go back there, where did you come from here, you do not have more reasons to stay here.
- And my mother with dad "at all" died? .. And we will not see them anymore ... True?
Puffy Mayaine sponge threw up, and the first large tear appeared on the brush ... I knew that if it was not to stop it now - there would be a lot of tears ... And in our present "communal" state, it was impossible to admit it ...
- But you are alive, though?! Therefore, you want this or not, but you will have to live. I think that mother and dad would be very happy if they found out that everything is fine with you. After all, they loved you very much ... "As I could, I said.
- How did you know that? - Baby stared at me in surprise.
- Well, they accomplished a very heavy act by saving you. Therefore, I think only loves someone very much, you can make such a thing ...
- And where will we go now? We will go with you? .. - Questionfully looking at me with his huge gray glazes, asked Maya.
"Here Arno would like to pick you up with me." What do you think of it? He is also not sweet, too ... and many more and many have to get bored to survive. So you will help each other ... So, I think it will be very correct.
Stella finally came to himself, and immediately "rushed into the attack":
"What happened that this monster got you, Arno?" Do you remember anything? ..
- No ... I only remember the light. And then a very bright meadow, filled with the sun ... But it was no longer the earth - it was something wonderful and completely transparent ... there is no such thing on earth. But then everything disappeared, but I woke up "I'm already here and now.
- And what if I try to "see" through you? - Suddenly a completely wild thought came to my head.
- How - through me? - surprised Arno.
- Oh, and right! - immediately exclaimed Stella. - How did I do not think?!
"Well, sometimes you see, and something comes to me ..." I laughed. - not always only you invent!
I tried to "engage" in his thoughts - nothing happened ... I tried to "remember" the moment with him, when he "leaving" ...
- Oh, what's the horror !!! - Skaking Stella. - Look, this is when they captured it !!!
I stopped my breath ... the picture we saw was and the truth is not pleasant! It was a moment when Arno just died, and his essence began to rise through the blue canal up. And right behind him ... besides the channel, three completely nightmarish creatures were drunk! .. Two of them were certainly the Lower Earth Entities, but the third one clearly seemed some other, very terrible and alien, obviously not earthly ... And all these creatures were very purposefully chased by a person, apparently trying to get it for some reason ... And he, the poor thing, without even suspecting that he was so "cute" hunt, Paril in silver-blue, light silence, enjoying unusually deep , unearthly rest, and, greedily absorbing this rest, rested the soul, forgetting for a moment the wild, destroyed earth pain, "thanks" to which he landed in this transparent, unfamiliar world ...
At the end of the channel, already at the entrance to the "floor", two mandes lightningly jarled behind Arno in the same channel and unexpectedly merged into one, and then this "one" quickly flowed in the main, the most nasty, who was probably the strongest of them. And he attacked ... Or rather, it was suddenly completely flat, "rolling" almost to a transparent haze, and "I wondered" anything unaware of Arno, completely stolen his essence, depriving him of the former "I" and in general any "presence" ... And after, terribly laughing, immediately widths already captured the essence of poor Arno (just the ripe beauty approaching the upper floor) straight into the lower astral ....
"I don't understand ..." Stella whispered. - How did they capture him, he seems so strong? .. And well, let's see what happened even earlier?
We again tried to watch through the memory of our new acquaintance ... And immediately understood why he was such a light target for capturing ...
For clothes and surroundings, it looked as if about a hundred years ago. He stood in the middle of a huge room, where he lay on the floor, completely naked, two female bodies ... Rather, it was a woman and a girl who could be from the strength of fifteen years. Both bodies were scary beaten, and apparently, brutally raped brutally before death. On the poor Arno "there was no facial" ... he stood like a dead man, not moving, and perhaps not even understanding where at that moment was, as shock was too cruel. If we were correctly understood - it was his wife and daughter, over which someone is very brutally inadequate ... Although, to say, it would be wrong to say "in brutal", because no beast does not make what it is capable sometimes human...
Suddenly Arno shouted, as the wounded animal, and fell on the ground, next to the scary worried body of his wife (?) ... In it, as during a storm, wild vortices raged emotions - anger replaced hopelessness, rage caught a longing, after disturbing Inhuman pain, from which there was no salvation ... He rode the floor with his cries, not finding his grief ... until finally, to our horror, completely sat down, no longer stirred ...
Well, naturally, opened such a rude emotional "squall", and he dreamed with him, he began at that moment the ideal "target" for capturing any, even the most weak "black" creatures, not to mention those who later suffered so hard Behind him to use his powerful energy body, as a simple energy "costume" ... to be left after, with it, your horrible, "black" business ...
"I don't want to watch it more ..." Stella said the whisper. "I don't want to see horror anymore anything else ... Is it a human?" Well, tell me !!! Is it right?! We are people !!!
Stella began real hysterics, which was so unexpected that in the first second I was completely confused, not finding what to say. Stella was very indignant and even a little angry, which, in this situation, probably was completely acceptable and explained. For others. But it was so, again, it's not like that that I just finally understood how painful and deeply all this, an endless earthly evil wounded her kind, affectionate heart, and as far as she probably was tired of constantly carrying all this human Dirt and cruelty on their fragile, even very children's, shoulders .... I really wanted to hug this cute, persistent and so sad now, the little man! But I knew that it would upset her even more. And therefore, trying to keep quietly, so as not to affect her even deeper and so too "ragged" feelings, she tried, as she could, calm her.
"But there is a good, not only bad! .. You just look around - and your grandmother? .. And shouted? .. Won Maria generally lived only for others! And how many people! .. They are very very, very much! You're just very tired and very sad, because we have lost good friends. So everything seems to be in the "black paints" ... and tomorrow there will be a new day, and you will become ourselves again, I promise you! And also, if you want, we will not go to this "floor"? Want? ..
- Is the reason in the "floor"? .. - Gorky asked Stella. - From this, it will not change anything, we will go here or not ... It's just a terrestrial life. She is angry ... I don't want to be more here ...
I was very frightened, does Stella think to leave me and go all out forever?! But it was so on her not like! .. In any case, it was not the same Stella, which I knew so well ... And I really wanted to believe that her brown love for life and a bright joyful character "erase powder "All of the current bitterness and barking, and very soon she will again become the same solar stella, which still has been so recently ...
Therefore, a little calming itself, I decided not to do now any "far-reaching" conclusions, and wait until tomorrow before making any more serious steps.
Hearing the combination of the words "Ancient Egypt", many will immediately imagine majestic pyramids and large sphinx - it is with them that a mysterious civilization is associated, separated from us by several millennia. We will get acquainted with interesting facts about sphinxes, these mysterious beings.
Definition
What is Sphinx? The word for the first time appeared in the country the pyramids, and later spread around the world. So, in ancient Greece, you can meet a similar being - a beautiful woman with wings. In Egypt, these creatures most often had a male race. Known Sphinx with the face of female Pharaoh Hatsepsut. Having received the throne and pushing the legal heir, this powerful woman tried to edit, as a man, even wore a special patch beard. Therefore, there is nothing surprising that many statues of this time found her face.
What function did they perform? According to mythology, Sphinx performed as the Guardian of Tomb and Temple Buildings, which is why most of the statues that have come down to this day have been discovered close to this kind of structures. So, in the church of the Supreme Divine, Sunmonn, they found about 900.
So, answering the question of what Sphinx is, it should be noted that this is a statue characteristic of the culture of ancient Egypt, which, according to mythology, guarded temple buildings and tombs. As a material for the creation, a limestone was used, which in the country the pyramids was quite a lot.
Description
The ancient Egyptians portrayed the sphinx so:
- Human head, most often Pharaoh.
- The body of a lion, one of the sacred animals of the roasting country Kemet.
But such appearance is not the only version of the image of mythological creation. Modern finds prove that there were other species, such as heads:
- barana (the so-called cryosphinces were installed at the Amon Temple);
- Sokol (they were called hieralicosphinces and most often placed at the temple of God the mountain);
- jastreb.
So, answering the question of what Sphinx is, it should be indicated that this is a statue with a body of a lion and an head of a different creature (more often - a man, ram), which was installed in the immediate vicinity of the temples.
The most famous sphinches
The tradition of creating a very original statue with the human head and the lion's body was inherent in the Egyptians for a long time. So, the first of them appeared during the fourth pharaoh dynasty, that is, in about 2700-2500. BC e. Interestingly, the first representative was a female genus and portrayed the queen hetfera to the second. Up to us, this statue has reached, everyone can look at her in the Cairo Museum.
Everyone knows the great Sphinx in Giza, which we will talk about below.
The second largest sculpture depicting an unusual being is Creation from Alebastra with the Faracon of the Amenhotel of the Second, found in Memphis.
No less well known and the famous sefnox alley at the Temple of Amon in Luxor.
The greatest value
The most famous worldwide, of course, a great Sphinx, who does not just amaze the imagination with its huge sizes, but also asks the scientist community a lot of riddles.
The giant with a lion's body is located on the plateau in Giza (not far from the capital of the modern state, Cairo) and is part of the burial complex, which also includes three great pyramids. It is carved from the monolithic blister and is the largest structure for which a solid stone was used.
The disputes are even the age of this outstanding monument, although the analysis of the rock and allowed him to assume that he was at least 4.5 thousand years. What features of this colossal monument are known?
- The face of the Sphinx, an disfiguous time and, as one of the legends, the barbaric actions of Napoleon's army soldiers, most likely depicts Pharaoh Hefren.
- The giant face is facing the east, it is there that the pyramids are located - the statue seems to protect the greatest pharaohs of antiquity.
- The dimensions of the figure carved from the monolithic limestone are striking the imagination: length - more than 55 meters, width - about 20 meters, the width of the shoulders is more than 11 meters.
- Previously, the ancient Sphinx was painted, as evidenced by the preserved paint residues: red, blue and yellow.
- The statue also attended a beard peculiar to the kings of Egypt. It has been preserved to the present day, although separate from the sculpture - it is kept in the British Museum.
The gigant was reappeared several times under the sands, he was filing. Perhaps it is the protection of sand that helped the sphinx to survive the disadvantaged effect of natural cataclysms.
Change
Egyptian Sphinx managed to defeat the time, but it affected the change in its appearance:
- Initially, the figure had a traditional headdress for the pharaoh, decorated with a sacred cobra, but it was completely destroyed.
- Lost the statue and overhead beard.
- Nose damage has already been mentioned. Someone vinit in this shelling of the Army of Napoleon, others - the actions of Turkish soldiers. There is also a version that the protruding item suffered from wind and humidity.
Despite this, the monument is one of the greatest creatures of the ancients.
Riddles history
Let's get acquainted with the secrets of the Egyptian Sphynx, many of which are not solved so far:
- The legend says that under the giant monument there are three underground strokes. However, only one of them managed to find a giant head.
- The age of the largest sphinx is still unknown. Most scientists believe that it was built at the Board of Hefre, however, there are those who consider sculpture more ancient. Thus, her face and head retained traces of the effects of water elements, so the hypothesis appeared that the giant was erected more than 6 millennia ago, when a terrible flood hit Egypt.
- Perhaps the Army of the French Emperor in vain is accused of damaging the great monument of the past, since there are drawings of an unknown traveler, on which the giant is already depicted without nose. Napoleon was still not born at that time.
- As you know, the Egyptians knew writing and documented in detail on the papyrus all - from conquering campaigns and the construction of temples before tax collection. However, no scroll was found, which would contain information on the construction of the monument. Perhaps these documents simply did not reach this day. Perhaps the reason is that the Giant appeared long before the Egyptians themselves.
- The first mention of the Egyptian Sphynx was found in the works of the Senior Plane, which refers to the work on the damping of the sculpture from the sand.
The majestic monument of the ancient world has not yet opened all their mysteries to us, so its research continues.
Restoration and security
We learned what Sphinx is, what role he played in the world of ancient Egyptian. To roll up a huge figure from the sand and partially restored it was trying on Pharaohs. It is known that such work was carried out during the time of Tutamos IV. The granite stele (the so-called "Stel of Sleep") is preserved, telling that once Pharaoh had a dream in which God of Ra told him to clear the statue of the sand, in return, he promising power over the state.
Later, to dig up the Egyptian Sphynx commanded and the conqueror Ramses II. Then attempts were made at the beginning of the XIX and XX centuries.
Now let's see how our contemporaries try to preserve this cultural heritage. The figure was carefully analyzed, all cracks were revealed, the monument was closed for visiting and was restored for 4 months. In 2014, he was again open for tourists.
The history of the sphinx in Egypt is amazing and filled with secrets and riddles. Many of them are still unagreened by scientists, so an amazing figure with the body of a lion and a person's face continues to attract attention.
Sphinx - the largest statue in Egypt. Big Sphinx in Egypt - monolithic sculpture from limestone. It was not built from bricks of a certain shape and sizes, and pushed out of one monolithic stone of Plateau Giza: already later the lower part of the sphinx was covered with stones to protect against destruction. If you take Egyptian civilization, then the Sphinx is the personification of the strength and power of Pharaoh (man - God) on Earth.
The statue is a body of a lion from a man's head (pharaoh) and has a length of more than 70 m., And in a height of 20 m. Chipping stones from the plateau, 9 meters from the sphinx paws in parallel Sphinx Templewhose ruins can be observed now. It is assumed that this is the temple of the Sun, because In it, 2 shrines and 24 columns are symmetrically located (analogy of 24 o'clock in days). During the spring and autumn equinox, the Sun formed a straight line between the Eastern and Western sanctuary. Next, she passed through the shoulder of the statue of the Sphinx and stretched to the southern corner of the second pyramid of Giza (Hafra) - where the sun was sis. These assumptions allow scientists to put forward the theory that the second pyramid of Giza, Sphinx and the Sphinx Temple were built with Pharaoh Hifra (Hefren) in 2575-2465 BC And it is his face depicted on the Sphinx.
The next theory refutes the fact that the face of the Sphinx is the face of Pharaoh Hefren (Hafra). For this, a detailed work was carried out on Compare the faces of the Great Sphinx Giza and Statue of Pharaoh Hefren from the Museum in Cairo. Despite the fact that the appearance of the Sphinx suffered from time to time (there is no nose), a discrepancy was clearly identified. Moreover, the study of the features of the face of the Sphinx statue led to the conclusion that the face belongs to the African race. And this leads to another theory, before this place became the desert, North Africa inhabited the people of Ukraine. Perhaps the face of the Sphinx is the face of the Black African King or Queen?! This theory also confirms the fact of water erosion, which washed the soft breeds of limestone for many millennia, destroying the initial smooth surface of the famous statue. And such climatic conditions were on the territory of Egypt long before the pharaohs and the ancient civilization of Egypt, approximately 9000 years. BC (36 thousand years before n. e).
There is another theory according to which Egypt It is the keeper of the knowledge of the Great Civilization of Atlantis. According to this theory, in the middle of 11 millennia BC (36 thousand years BC) in Giza was arranged a huge cache of the deceased Atlantis. And the entrance to it is at the right front of the sphinx paw. This is mentioned in the prophecies of Edgar Casey, as well as when scanning the specified area by Japanese scientists: voids were found. Perhaps soon we are waiting for the discovery that will turn the idea of \u200b\u200bhistory.
First restoration of Sphinx Was in the era of the new kingdom (1500 BC). At this time, the statue was drowned in the sand on the neck. Taxmos IV. ordered to erect two brick walls that achieved 8 meters high so that they protect the sphinx from the sand of the desert. The sculpture was digested, strengthened with stones and painted in red, blue and yellow colors. Between the paws installed the statue of the Tutamos on the granite stele, on which the inscriptions were left. However, the wind, sand and time again drowned in the sand Monumental monument of history, and the result of the next paddings, which reached this day, was completed only in 1925.
Sphinx - Guardian of the Tomb of Pharaohs and their secrets. Three majestic pyramids: Heops, Hefren and Micheerina - part of the extensive necropolis of Giza. Daily late in the evening at the Plateau Giza passes a grandiose performance - an exciting light-music show, where the beams of the searchlights snatch from the darkness of the monuments of ancient civilization and all this spectacle accompanies a story about each of them.
Sphinx Giza is one of the oldest, largest and most mysterious monuments ever created by a person. Disputes about his origin are still going. We gathered 10 little-known facts about the majestic monument in the Sahara desert.
1. Large Sphinx Giza Sphinx is not
Specialists argue that the Egyptian Sphynx can not call the traditional image of the Sphinx. In the classic Greek mythology, the Sphinx was described as a creature that had a body of a lion, a woman's head and bird wings. In Giza, the sculpture of Androsfinse is actually towers, since he has no wings.
2. Initially, the sculpture had several other names.
The ancient Egyptians initially did not call it a gigantic creature "large sphinx". In the text on the "Stale of Dreams", dating from about 1400 BC, the Sphinx is referred to as the "statue of the Great Hepri". When the future pharaoh Tutamos IV slept next to her, he dreamed of a dream in which God Hepry-Ra-Atum came to him and asked to free the statue of sand, and in return he promised that the tathmos would become the ruler of all Egypt. Tutamos IV Dippophaded in the sandy sand with the statue, which after that became known as Horam Axet, which is translated as "mountains on the horizon". Medieval Egyptians called Sphinx "Balkhib" and "Bilhow".
3. No one knows who built a sphinx
Even today, people do not know the exact age of this statue, and modern archaeologists argue about who could create it. The most popular theory says that the Sphinx arose during the Board of Hefren (the fourth dynasty of the ancient kingdom), i.e. The age of the statue dates from about 2500 a year before our era.
This pharaoh is attributed to the creation of the pyramid of Hefren, as well as necropolis Giza and a number of ritual temples. The proximity of these structures with Sphinx prompted a number of archaeologists to believe that hefren ordered to build a majestic monument with his face.
Other scientists believe that the statue is much older than the pyramid. They prove that the face and head of the statue are traces of obvious damage to water and put forward the theory that the Great Sphinx already existed during the era when the region faced an extensive flood (6 millennia to our era).
4. Who would build a sphinx, he rushed from him to break his head after the end of the construction
American archaeologist Mark Leger and the Egyptian archaeologist Canes Havass found a large stone blocks, tool kits and even petrified dinners under the sand layer. This clearly indicates that the workers are so hurried to go away, they did not capture with them even their tools.
5. Basher workers who built a statue, perfectly fed
Most scientists think that people who built the sphinx were slaves. However, their diet assumes quite different. As a result of the excavation, under the leadership, Mark Leger was found that the workers regularly dinner beef, lamb and kvdvatin.
6. Sphinx was once covered with paint
Although now Sphinx gray-sand color, once it was completely covered with bright paint. Red paint residues still can be found on the face of the statue, and on the sphinx body there are traces of blue and yellow paint.
7. Sculpture for a long time was buried under the sand
Great Sphinx Giza several times became the victim of the Szybuchi sands of the Egyptian desert during his long-term existence. The first known recovery of almost completely buried under the sand of the Sphinx occurred shortly before the 14th century BC, thanks to the Rasmos IV, which soon became Egyptian pharaoh. Three millennia later, the statue was again buried under the sands. Up until the 19th century, the front paws of the statue were deep beneath the desert surface. Fully Sphinx was excavated in the 1920s.
8. Sphinx lost his headdress in the 1920s
During the last recovery, a large Sphinx fell out of his famous headdress, and the head and neck was seriously damaged. The Egyptian government hired the team of engineers to restore the Statue in 1931. But during this restoration, a soft limestone was used, and in 1988, the 320-kilogram part of the shoulder fell off, almost killing the German reporter. After that, the Egyptian government again began to restore the work.
9. After the construction of the Sphinx, there was a cult that reverend him
Thanks to the mystical vision of Tutamos IV, who became Pharaoh after the gigantic statue was dug, in the 14th century BC, a whole cult of worship of the Sphinx arose. Pharaohs, ruling during the new kingdom, even built new temples, from which it was possible to see a large sphinx and worship him.
10. Egyptian Sphinx is much the good of Greek
The modern reputation of the sphinx as a cruel creature occurred from Greek mythology, and not Egyptian. In Greek myths, the Sphinx is mentioned in connection with the meeting with the Oedip, to which he guess the allegedly intractable riddle. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Sphinx was considered more benevolent.
11.Napoleone is not to blame for the fact that the Sphinx no nose
The mystery of the lack of nose in a large sphinx spawned all sorts of myths and theories. One of the most common legends states that Napoleon Bonaparte ordered to beat off the nose statue in a gust of Gordini. However, early sphinx sketches show that the nose statue lost even before the birth of the French emperor.
12. Sphinx was once bearded
Today, the remains of the Big Sphinx beard, which were removed from the statue due to severe erosion, are stored in the British Museum and in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, created in Cairo in 1858. However, the French archaeologist Vasil Dobrev claims that the statue was not from the very beginning, and the beard was added later. Dobrev argues his hypothesis by the fact that the removal of the beard, if it were a component of the statue from the very beginning, would lead to damage to the chin of the statue.
13. Big Sphinx - the most ancient statue, but not the most ancient Sphinx
Great Sphinx Giza is considered the oldest monumental sculpture in human history. If we assume that the statue dates back to Hefren's rule, smaller sphinxes depicting its consolidated brother of Jedfra and Sister Notefer II, older.
14. Sphinx - the biggest statue
Sphinx, the length of which is 72 meters, and the height of 20 meters is considered the largest monolithic statue on the planet.
15. Several astronomical theories are associated with Sphinx
The riddle of a large Sphinx Giza led to the emergence of a number of theories about the supernatural understanding of the ancient Egyptians of the space. Some scientists, such as Leger, believe that the Sphinx with the pyramids of Giza is a giant machine for capturing and processing solar energy. In another theory, the Sphynx coincidence, the Pyramids and the Nile River with the stars of the Constellations of Leo and Orion are noted.
Sphinx is a mystical creature, hero of the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. This zoomorphic essence is the symbol of deep communication, hidden secrets. The Sphinx is considered an enigmatic symbol associated with the royal power and guards. Associated with the mystery that hides.
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Sphinx in different peoples
In the literature there are variations of the creature, and every different. One of the options is the FVAN Sphinx, mentioned in the legend of the Edipe. In the myth of the essence of the female head and chest, the body of the bull or dog, the paws of the lion, the tail of the dragon, the wings of the bird. Researchers explain: this image is the alliance of the main elements and the female start.
Sphinsks, like another monster, is associated with chaos, insanely destroying everything in the path of power, which carries an irrational nature. Therefore, it can be blocked by the power of mind. In legend, it is defeated by an emergency carrying a male start.
One of the Egyptian sphinxes has a shell's head that they associate him with God Amone - the patron saint of black celestial space and air. Egyptian sphinxes, unlike Greek, were depicted with a male head and a torso of a lion (a parallel was also held with male beginnings).
In each combination of human and animal parts of the body in myths invested the meaning. This entity is a symbol of mysteriousness. There is an opinion that he is the keeper of the other world.
Mythical creature of ancient Egypt
The first sculptures of the receiving agent-half-grains in ancient Egypt were found in the excavations of Goebekley-Tepe and dating from the Millennium BC. e. Part of the ancient Egyptian culture similar images were still during the ancient kingdom.
The famous sculpture in the world is a huge Sphinx guarding the pyramids in Giza. Common variants of creatures are considered to be:
- androsphinx - The usual appearance of messengers with a human head. More often, Pharaoh's face was depicted;
- hierakosfinx - Falcon head was used. Such creatures erased the temples of God Mountain.
- cryosphinches - Essence from the head of the ram.
But these are not all options. The commemorative temple of Amenhotpa III has images of sphinxes with crocodile bodies.
Legend of Sphinx in Ancient Greece
The Greek monster is different from Egyptian. It has griffin wings, dog body, lion paws and a woman's head. It is believed that this is the creature of the brainchild of typhon and the echid. In the first version of the legend, Himer and ORF were his parents. 
Entity destroyed male individuals.
According to myth, Gera sent a creature on the phiva in punishment - one city dweller blasphemy. The monster of anyone who passed by, asked questions. No one has managed to answer them, after which it killed the victims. People dressed from the paw of the sphinx, but the EDIP decided to fight him - the future king. Sphinx asked:
Who walks on four legs in the morning, on two - at noon and three in the evening, and on four and three walks worse than two?
EDIP did not hesitate to say that it is a person - at first he moves on all fours, when he matures, it becomes two legs, and the old moves with the help of the keys. The monster was upset and asked the second riddle:
Call two sisters, one of which generates another, and that in turn generates the first.
The Oedip said it was the day and night - and this answer was a monster that the monster. It lost. And after the essence rushed into the abyss.
There is another version of the legend. She says that a semi-day half-day with wings destroyed people, and did not make them riddles. And Oedip won her directly in the battle.
Indian Sphinx
During the period of Hellenism, the motive of the receiving-half-grains is popular and outside Greece. In India, similar sculptures have also been preserved, and there are special terms for the semi-suite-half-length, one like this: "Purushamriga".
Figurine of indian sphinx.
In the south of Asia, the Philippines and today are popular with the image of the Sphinx.
Sphinx in the modern world
There are ancient mythical entities, so included in the culture that a century later do not lose relevance. People are used whose popularity is not reduced over the centuries. History with Sphinx is similar.
Sphinx - symbol of occultism.
In European art, the essence returned to the era of mannerism. The images appeared on the frescoes, new sculptures were created. More often it is a semi-seen, with long hair, naked breasts.
With the onset of classicism, the image is obtained by a half-length becomes more popular. The monster began to appear in the paintings, in architecture. The image of the sphinx head decorated the document forms, was used as a regular detail of the decor of various items.
They did not pay such a bright, talking element and masons. They decided that this is a symbol-mystery. In the United States, these entities and today are established at the entrance to the halls of the Masonic meetings as the personification of the mystery and the call for silence.
Sphinx is an important symbol in ancient Greece, and ancient Egypt, he attracted people throughout the history of mankind. One of the recognizable. It is not known, there was this embodiment of wisdom and mystery or not, but the memory of him will live for a long time.
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