Sphinx: give me your wildest theory
- Thread starter Khanzeer
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To appease the God of Death and Riddles!
Or to bamboozle people in the future as a massive prank.
Or to bamboozle people in the future as a massive prank.
It is an ancient 'real' Sphinx that was lured there and turned to stone by ancient Egyptian magicians.
It commemorates the pet cat of the ancient alien leader who helped build the pyramids and later founded the Illuminati. Egyptians worshipped cats because of this leader.
I'm fond of the idea that it wasn't always a humanoid head but used to be the head of a jackal, y'know, Anubis.
A monument to the late guardian of Thebes, who committed suicide when Orpheus solved the riddle (Damn that motherscrewer!). As it turned out, the Greek Thebes and its Egyptian namesake were actually "towns of kindred souls", and the half of the remains were brought to the Egyptian Thebes.
Alternatively, having found out that Greece had stolen their city name the pharoahs dispatched the Sphinx to prevent the Greeks stealing their family planning industry as well. This move naturally backfired, and the statue is a warning about self-fulfilling prophecies.
A woman statue and cat statue were both started at the same time but had their funding slashed last minute, the sculptors just decided to make do with what they had
Anawrahta
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The original Sphinx was built by the early Pharaonic rulers and no longer exists. And the current Sphinx was built by the Saite Pharoahs and purposely made much older than it looks as an attempt to revive Ancient Egyptian culture after Assyrian imperialism.
A twist on the antidiluvian hypothesis.
A twist on the antidiluvian hypothesis.
