Truth Thread II: The Great Sphinx
14: 1 In the first Truth Thread, I tried to highlight the possible link between our condemnation with our turning away from nature and toward worshiping ourselves. 14: 2 I used the Gospel of Mark to show a parallel between the life of Jesus and the emergence and extinction of humankind.
14: 3 In the second Truth Thread, I will concentrate on the symbolism of the Great Sphinx, its origins, and ultimately its ruin, along with Pharaonic Egypt. 14: 4 In many ways, it reiterates the same narrative. Humanity persists when connected to nature spiritually, physically, and culturally.
Early Egypt
14: 5 Like most early human populations, early Egyptians worship the natural world, animals like the lion and hawk, or celestial bodies like the sun and constellations. 14: 6 Their life was connected to the solstices and the equinoxes. The inundation of the Nile was crucial to their fragile existence, and many aspects of the inundation were worshipped.
14: 7 God, I will call the Creator, would condone the worship of his creations. 14: 8 The worship of powers that keep humans in awe of our surroundings and a part of the natural system. This is true of all early cultures on Earth. However, certain aspects of history convey the truth of how and why we were condemned eons ago. 14: 9 Truth Threads are constants, like the rings of a tree; they show us what happened at the origin, the first life. 14: 10 The Sphinx has the telltale rings that document humankind’s turn away from the Creator and nature.
The Giza Plateau
14: 11 The Giza Plateau encapsulates 3,000 years of building and tearing down and building again. The plateau is littered with the remnants of several different dynasties and rulers.14: 12 And additionally, the religions of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. 14: 13 Dominating the complex are the pyramids; most Egyptologists think they were intended to be the tombs of pharaohs. 14: 14 As the Pharaonic age moved forward, Pharaohs became more than just kings. They became semi-divine beings, god-like.
14: 15 This means the most prominent feature created by Pharaonic culture was to commemorate men, not an animal, not a force of nature, or celestial body, but men.
The Lioness
14: 16 The Sphinx at one time, as argued by many, may have originally been a lioness, a symbol of ferocity and fertility. A predator feared and worshiped by early man. 14: 17 A lone lioness looking East atop the Giza plateau. 14: 18 In their book Origins of the Sphinx, R.M. Schoch, Ph.D., and R. Bauval theorize a date of the carving of the lioness that would become the Sphinx at around 10,500 BCE. 14: 19 The date put forward by Schoch and Bauval is based on scientific research, geology, and cosmology. 14: 20 If accurate, it means that for nearly 8,000 years, the lioness of the Giza Plateau and the civilization that created her endured next to the Nile. 14: 21 Several others also argue the Sphinx was carved later from a lioness. For example, Robert S. Neyland. in his paper, Mehit’s Stump: Unmasking the Great Sphinx of Giza.
Ruin
14: 22 I believe the point here is apparent; while worshiping nature, the Giza Plateau inhabitants lasted at least eight millennia. 14: 23 Then, from what can be assessed through the mist of history, something changed. Giza, the realm of the lioness, was then populated by architecture, temples, and tombs dedicated by humans to themselves. 14: 24 The lioness was then surrounded by the remnants of egos and the clutter of self-aggrandizement—a futile attempt at heaven on Earth for a greedy and selfish few. 14: 25 Even the old lioness herself was desecrated, carved into the face of a man convinced of his divinity over the Earth and its inhabitants. 14: 26 It then took only three millennia to bring an end to the empire, the pharaohs, and their civilization. 14: 27 It is true that the Pharaonic dynasties were powerful, created marvels, and may have been the most technologically advanced of the time. 14: 28 However, working against nature, worshipping themselves, and exploiting and putting themselves above their species ended their rule and everything they built and believed.
References
Schoch, R.M. Ph.D. & Bauval, R. (2017). Origins of the Sphinx Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization.
Neyland, R.S. (2020). Mehit’s Stump: Unmasking the Great Sphinx of Giza.