Are there sphinxes in every pyramid?

You can't have been to Egypt without visiting the pyramids. A few kilometers west of Cairo, we came to the village of Giza, and the pyramid, one of the seven wonders of ancient architecture in the world, stood in front of us. On the east side of the largest pyramid of khufu, there is the Sphinx, which attracts tourists from all over the world with its attractive magic. Khufu decreed that in 26 10 BC, Pharaoh Khufu came here to inspect his mausoleum, the pyramid that was about to be completed. Khufu found a boulder in the quarry. Khufu immediately ordered the stonemason to carve the Sphinx according to his face. Masons braved the heat and carved year after year, and finally finished. The statue is 20 meters high, 57 meters long and 5 meters long on the face. It wears the crown of "Nemes", with the relief of the sacred snake "Kubla" engraved on its forehead and the symbol of the emperor-drooping beard on its chin. One ear is more than two meters long. "Monster"-Is the head of the Sphinx really modeled after Khufu?

One legend is that ...

This is an eternal mystery. Don't carve something with the image of your face to protect your open grave, won't you be laughed at? This obviously reduced the value of Pharaoh. In ancient mythology, the Sphinx was a monster born of a giant and a snake: a human head and a winged lion's body, named the Sphinx. The sphinx is inherently cruel. He learned many riddles from the muse, the goddess of wisdom, and often stayed at the crossroads. If every pedestrian wants to pass, he must guess riddles, and if he guesses wrong, he will eat them all. There are countless victims. Once, a king's son was eaten by the Sphinx. The king was furious and offered a reward: "Whoever can subdue him will give him the throne!" " "A brave young man, Dipper, took revenge at the king's call. He walked and walked until he reached the intersection guarded by the Sphinx. " Young man, guess this riddle before you let it pass. "The Sphinx gave him the most difficult and difficult guess." It can make a sound, walking on four legs in the morning, walking on two legs at noon and walking on three legs at night. What is this? ""This is a person. "Smart dipper soon guessed. Dipper won, and he solved the mystery; When the Sphinx showed its true colors, he committed suicide to atone for it.

It is said that the Sphinx was carved according to the shape of the Sphinx. In fact, the Sphinx is not unique to Cairo, Egypt. Only this one in Cairo is the largest and oldest. However, the sphinx (or cow's head, sheep's head, etc. ) carved everywhere is squatting. The difference is that one of them raised his paw. The missing Sphinx has been born with a nose for thousands of years. After weathering, the color on its face has already fallen off. The elaborately carved snake and drooping beard have long since disappeared. However, the most regrettable thing is, how did its nose fall? This is another mystery. A widely circulated saying is that when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he saw majesty as if he were "demonstrating" to himself. In a rage, he ordered his men to blow off its nose with shells. However, this statement is not reliable, as early as before Napoleon, there have been records about it without a nose.

There is also a saying that 500 years ago, the Sphinx was regarded as a "target" by the Mamluk soldiers of the Egyptian king (the guards of medieval Egypt). Maybe it has been "injured" and its nose has been "colored". However, according to some records, the pharaohs and subjects in Egypt regarded this stone statue as the "sun god", and worshippers kept coming. Later, the wind and sand slowly covered more than half of it. At this time, an anti-idolatrous person climbed up the sand dune with a pick, and severely chiseled his nose on the sand surface, destroying its appearance. Strange dreams Visitors who come to "visit" the Sphinx can see a remaining dream monument between its two claws on the chest. An interesting story was recorded on the tablet computer. 3400 years ago, the young Prince Tomo came here to hunt. Maybe I was tired from running, so I sat on the beach to have a rest. I fell asleep before I knew it. I dreamt of a stone statue and said to him, "I am the great Rahul Umm Heihet (the god worshipped by ancient Egyptians, which means condor), and the sand is choking me. If I can clear the sand from my body. Then I will make you king of Egypt. " When the prince woke up, he mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources, dug the Sphinx out of the sand and built a sand wall beside it. In the long years, stone statues have tasted the "pain" buried in the sand many times. Perhaps because of this, Herodotus, a famous Greek historian, gave a detailed and vivid description of the pyramids when he visited Egypt in the fifth century BC, but did not mention the Sphinx at hand. Probably, it was completely covered by sand dunes by this time. Decades ago, people dug it out of the sand for the last time and saw the sunshine.

The mystery of the lion's body

The word Sphinx is not an ancient Egyptian word, but an ancient Greek word, meaning repression. The ancient Egyptians did not call themselves the Sphinx, so what is the name of the Sphinx in Egyptian? Is Horus on the horizon? Ancient Egypt was a polytheistic country. It is the first step for mankind to explain the magic of nature and the creation of the world through the origin and myth of God. Horus is one of the most worshipped gods in Egypt. Horus, the god of falcon, is a god in the sky, which gave Pharaoh the power to rule this land and people. Egyptian rulers often associate themselves with the God of Horus. People think that Pharaoh is the incarnation of the God of Horus on earth. Gods like Horus, especially in Egyptian mythology, we can still see some gods. The first god is the god of jackals, not the god of wealth, but the god of jackals, which means to get rich anyway. This jackal god, his name is Anubis, and he is the god of the underworld. The second is the cat god named Pasteur. This cat god is very interesting. Cat has a wonderful pronunciation in Egyptian. Pronunciation is Miwu, which is very similar to the onomatopoeia of cats in our Chinese. "Meow", Miwu, then this is the cat god. The last one is called Sahmat. Sahmat is the head of a lion, and the human body just fell off with the Sphinx. Here we can see why ancient Egypt wanted the body and head to be a combination of two animals, which has its own tradition. So when did this first originate? Totem worship, which originated in ancient Egypt, and the ritual of such a mask. Because it has such a worship of animals, it may make such a mask to attend some ceremonies, which gives people such inspiration. That is to say, the somersaults of different animals can be linked together, so this Pasteur god means protection. Why does it mean protection? Because it is the head of a lion, it is dignified and protective. At this point, it is slightly related to the repression in ancient Greece, so people speculate that in front of the pyramids in Giza, such a huge sphinx was used to guard the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs.

The mystery of human face

Let's see which Pharaoh its face depicts. Because we know the Sphinx in ancient Greece, it is a statue of a woman. Except that it is a statue of a woman, it is hard to say what it has to do with any special person. But this ancient Egyptian sphinx, this statue is different. The scarf he wears is a very typical scarf worn by ancient Egyptian pharaohs. This model is typical, with snake marks on the head. Why traces? Because its original snake is gone, it has experienced so many years of wind and rain and man-made destruction, but we can see that there is a sculpture in this place. This thing must be a snake, and this snake is not everyone's right to wear it on his turban, just in front of it, which is a symbol of Pharaoh.

So people have come up with such a reasoning, that is to say, if we can identify which specific Pharaoh's face this statue, the Sphinx, was carved with, then we can roughly know the year of birth and death of this Pharaoh. Then we can know who it belongs to and when it was built. So we see that these are statues of two pharaohs, not one pharaoh, but two pharaohs. On the left is Khufu's son Hafre, that is to say, this sphinx and the pyramid behind it are also the owners of the second highest pyramid in Egypt. He is Havre; The man on the right is Zander Frey, who is also the son of Khufri. He's Haffley's brother. He also ruled Egypt and was a Pharaoh. But after Khufu died, he succeeded Khufu as the ruler of Egypt, but his time was short. Three or four years later, he died. Not only dead, but also what's interesting? It is said that during the ancient kingdom, Pharaoh used to build his own pyramids in Giza, and they were all built in Giza, so Giza became synonymous with pyramids. However, instead of building his own pyramids in Giza, he built them in Ablava, north of Giza. The pyramids in this place are built very small. Why is this happening? Let's not talk about it, but in any case, he doesn't have his own tomb or pyramid building in Giza. He is also short-lived. Why? We can speculate, but in any case, he died three or four years later. His younger brother Havell began to take his place. As the ruler of the fourth dynasty in ancient Egypt, he continued to rule Egypt and built a huge pyramid. Then there was such a sphinx in front of the pyramid. Who does this sphinx look like? We can turn it back and look at this sphinx.

It might be better if the nose existed, but we can still see the mouth more or less clearly. What is the final conclusion of ordinary scholars after repeated comparisons and even some computer measurements? Although it is in front of the pyramid of Harvard, it is generally considered to be the building of Harvard Ruijin Tower, but people think it is more like his brother Zandre in appearance. That's why people have such an idea, so who built this pyramid? Did Harvard or his brother build it? If his brother built it, did his brother die mysteriously in the process of building it? If he died mysteriously, who inherited him? Who is making a profit? It's huff. After making a profit, Havel not only stole one of his brother's thrones, but also took his brother's pyramid as his own and built such a brilliant pyramid that attracted the attention of future generations. It's possible, but whether it's his brother's or his brother's, whether it's Jane Drey's or Harvard's, it's even suggested that it might be built by their father Khufu. But no matter who built it, their age is generally determined, that is, around 2500 BC and 4500 years ago.

The mystery of architecture

It is generally believed that the Sphinx in ancient Egypt was used to guard the Pharaoh's graveyard. It is a combination of wisdom and courage, but some people have different understandings. This man is the great American prophet edgar cayce, who predicted from 1933 that the Sphinx was not built by the ancient Egyptians.

Construction reason

So people keep looking. In ancient inscriptions, inscriptions are ancient Egyptian characters carved on stones and embossed on walls. Then people really found such inscriptions in these words. The inscription said that Horus on the ground began to walk from the east bank or the other side of the winding river 70 days before the summer solstice, and began to walk this way. Then after 70 days, he and another magical combination on the ground appeared. So people began to analyze this inscription and began to look for its true meaning. So what does this Horus mean from shore to shore? People also began to walk according to the first 70 days of this summer solstice. From this shore to this shore, at best, it is near the pyramid, and there is nothing for them to understand the answer to this question. So people are very upset and wonder if we misunderstood. Later, a wise man really said, when we talk about the river winding on the ground from the horizon, we don't mean the river winding on the ground, nor does it mean the Nile on the ground. What river is it? There is also a river corresponding to us and the ground. What river is this? We all know that it is called the Milky Way now, and it is also winding. In the first seventy days of the summer solstice, people went to Giza to observe the eastern part of the Milky Way, and found that there really was a star and the sun, and a shining star and the sun appeared there. People began to observe the star and the sun, and the result of observation was that it really fell on the horizon after 70 days. Where did it land? As shown above. It really crossed the winding galaxy in the sky and came here. It was that point on the horizon that appeared 70 days later, and a constellation appeared in this place. What constellation? Leo. Horus and the constellation Leo are one, and now they are one. So people think that the ancient Egyptian inscription refers to this. Then we can know why the mysterious statue built in front of the pyramid is the body of a lion, not the body of a jackal, not the body of a baboon, not the body of other animals. He feels that the coupling between this thing and such an astronomical phenomenon coincides with their beliefs and their myths and legends.

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From this, we can see that in this picture, there are two front paws on both sides, and the monument in the middle is the monument of Thutmose IV Station, which is now called the Dream Monument. He wrote it, of course, in Egyptian hieroglyphics. We can see this clearly, so the main story here is how he slept here and had a dream. In this dream, how did the Sphinx promise him that if you clean it up for me, I promise you will be the next Pharaoh. No matter whether the dream is true or not, the dream monument exists, so the gravel and sand around the Sphinx began to be cleaned up bit by bit. After each cleaning, it is buried again several years later, and then cleaned again. Cleaning up should be said to be indispensable for future generations to see its complete image.

However, repeated cleaning has also brought some unnecessary, not unnecessary, perhaps inevitable damage to the huge building. What damage? It is a kind of injury caused by natural wind and rain and upward transpiration of groundwater. Gradually, it lost a lot of things. Anyway, it's getting worse every day, and the more you repair it, the greater the damage.

During World War II, a high wall was built under its chin to prevent its head from collapsing due to gunfire. In recent years, it has been found that the head, neck, back, chest and epidermis of the Sphinx are peeling off, and the body is obviously "thin". "The Sphinx is sick!" The news spread and shocked Egypt. Parliament held an emergency discussion, newspapers rushed to report, and experts from all over the world flocked to Egypt. People are worried that the huge head will suddenly break one day. So, where is its root? In the past, people paid attention to the prevention and treatment of diseases of the Sphinx, such as sticking limestone similar to the original stone on its surface to prevent it from falling off, but the effect was not good. In recent years, some people have infiltrated the neck of stone statues with barium hydroxide solution, and the barium hydroxide solution and calcium carbonate have undergone chemical changes to produce a solid substance. But many people don't agree, because the treated place still falls off. People are opposed to doing uncertain experiments on rare treasures. Looking for a comprehensive treatment plan is undoubtedly right from a strategic point of view, but it is easy to talk about! It is still an urgent problem to discuss which prescription is the most suitable for the right medicine.