Posteado por inca en 27/05/2009 18:34
These two lions are, I believe, originally Shu and Tefenut. The one on the right is Shu, and that is the surviving one refereed to in the text as Today, as it is a survival and indispensable deity. While the other lion, Tefenut (the Second Sphinx), on the left was Yesterday, as it was destroyed. This simply means that the sunset and sunrise phenomenon were explained and religiously described by the ancient Egyptian priests as the work of these two lions. Therefore, they are also related to the life, death, and then life again of the sun and the undisturbed eternal cycle of life and resurrection. The cult relied upon this belief of eternal life.Symetry was also in the end position of the royal statues , like those, which are in front of the Ramses 11 pylons of Luxor Temple. There were three in front of each pylon. Two seated and flanking the entrance and four standing statues, two on each side of the pylon. There were also two identical obelisks erected in front of the seate figures, the eastern one is still there, the western one is now in the Concorde Square in Paris, France.
There were double avenues of sphinxes to guard and protect the Pharaoh during his passing in and out of the temple. Protection always came from both sides the passerby, his left and right side. Of course, it is not logical to protect someone from one side only, as that would easily allow evil, whatever it is or wherever it is coming from, or in whatever form it comes according to the belief of the period, to attack from the unprotected side. Therefore, by adding symmetry to logic, it is only correct to believe that there should not be one lion or sphinx on its own in ancient Egypt. Another useful and historical evidence of the destruction of the "Second Sphinx" is that this lightening hit some branches of a sycamore tree, which are in the vicinity of Hor-makhet. The truth in this comment is undisturbed because Selim Hassan believes that perhaps the sycamore tree that is on the southern side of the Sphinx today is the offspring of the hit and burnt ancient tree, especially when he confirms that sycamore trees live for a very long interval of time and it was calculated in his time of excavation (1936) that it could have reached more than 2000 years. It is only fair to say that if thunder and lightening hit the sycamore tree and the northern sphinx, why did it not hit what is between, which is the southern sphinx, the "Second Sphinx?" . On the internet, a radar image of the Giza plateau was downloaded which benefits the Second Theory. The process was named SIR-C/X-SAR imagery works by NASA. Simply stated, it is a colored analysis of the different geological layers of the Giza Plateau and its constructions, those layers which are toward the Southside of the existing sphinx across the causeway, reflect a yellow signal indicating the existence of a structure. This radar signal is normally received in the form of pulses at particular microwave wavelengths in the range of I cm to I m, which in turn corresponds to a frequency range of about 300 MHz to 30 GHz and polarizations. The echoes are converted to a digital data which then is displayed as an image. This image is composed of many dots or elements of a picture, each represents the radar back scatter for a particular area on the ground. In our case it is the remaining of the "Second Sphinx."
The question remains though, if that curious bright yellow area is what remained from the Second Sphinx why are the head and paws not detected?
The answer is, the sphinx was, like her brother, at one point in time, wearing a beautiful crown (sometimes a double crown). A hole at the top of the existing sphinx's head proves that it was used to fit in it the stand that held the crown. The fact that sphinxes wore crowns is not strange for the ancient Egyptians, as, many still existing ones are shown wearing it.
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