Sphinx Connections

I can see five!

I am glad that you liked that picture. I am a bit in the dark, but try to find interesting and colourful material.

The Great Sphinx and the sand

One of the earliest photographs of the sphinx was taken in 1849. An excavation had opened up some of the area in front:



By 1860, the sand had filled in the excavated area:

The sphinxes along the Victoria Embankment again

“Really curious. I'm left wondering if there is something like a ley-line going through that area. It seems too purposeful to just have all of that, and in that area, too.”

Avacyn I am not sure why that area was chosen for the obelisk and its accompanying sphinxes.

I do know that the area was part of the Thames until 1864 when it was reclaimed. The main road immediately to the north is The Strand. The name means shore: the Thames once reached much further north and The Strand was the old riverfront. I don’t think that ley lines run under water!

I went there today and walked all along the Embankment from Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo Bridge, stopping to rest on a sphinx bench or two along the way. They are on pedestals, so you get a good view of the river. They could do with a new coat of paint!

I also took a close look at the shrapnel damage sustained in 1917.

You can see Hungerford Bridge and the London Eye in the background in the picture of the damaged sphinx, and Waterloo Bridge in the other picture:

Houdini and the sphinx again

Promotional posters: Houdini’s ‘Buried Alive’ stunt and an annual dinner:

A legacy of Imprisoned with the Pharaohs

This print with two sphinxes at the top and Harry Houdini in the middle was created by Michael Bukowski in 2014

It was inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini collaboration Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (Under the Pyramids.)

Joan Grant and Ancient Egypt

Your post has reminded me of Joan Grant, who wrote several books about life in Ancient Egypt. She said at first that they were historical novels; later she claimed that they were memories of some of her previous lives.

And yes, there was a lot of black magic in Ancient Egypt and in previous incarnations she was involved with stopping it. I
like books in which the forces of light fight the forces of darkness.

I can’t remember whether or not she ever mentioned the Great Sphinx.

There was a time when I also believed that I have memories from past lives. But I realised after a few years that paying to much attention to this wasn't doing me any good and now I don't know anymore if reincarnation actually exists ans what the source of these "memories" were. I used to believe that I had drown in my last life or the life before my last life and that this was the reason why I was so scared of diving as a child. But I know from my parents word that in my early childhood there were at least two incidents when I could have drown.

One time when I was in an hotel and walking by the pool and the whole pool area was very beautifully designed (with plants and such...) and I suddenly felt remembered of ancient egypt or some similar place. It was like I remembered being a woman in ancient egypt.
And another time I suddenly had this vision of being in a medival village and everyone but me was dead and it was very quiet and then I took a horse out of a stable and just rode away. I have no Idea were the second "memory" came from because it wasn't triggered by anthing.
These are just two examples. I could give so much more.

Omm Sety and the Great Sphinx

truthseeker you have reminded me of the strange case of Omm Sety.

She was an Englishwoman who believed that she was the reincarnation of a priestess in Ancient Egypt.

She was born Dorothy Eady in 1904. The past life memories started after she recovered from a terrible fall down the stairs at the age of three. She was at first thought to have died.

She studied Egyptology, married an Egyptian and moved to Egypt. She would sometimes spend the night in the Great Pyramid of Giza, and was known to venture out at night to perform strange rituals, say prayers, and make offerings to Horus in the form of the Great Sphinx, which she said was much older than the experts believed.

General Ulysses S. Grant and the Sphinx

Benjamin Disraeli was not the only politician to be associated with sphinxes. The US Army general Ulysses S. Grant, who was prominent in the Civil War, earned a reputation as ‘the American Sphinx’ because he often kept his thoughts to himself:

“Since settlers arrived in the early 19th century, Southern Illinois has been referred to as “Little Egypt,” a reference to the supposed similarity between the Nile Delta and the fertile soil found at the confluence of the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee rivers. Fittingly, this delta region was also home to that great Sphinx of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant...
…War had come, steaming south, with Grant at the helm. The Sphinx, by myth either a benevolent defender or monstrous devourer, had asked his first riddle.“

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/grant-goes-to-war/

What is interesting is that those pyramids look more like they are the Nubian pyramids you find in Sudan. They are more like isosceles triangles, like in the picture you posted.

I understand what you are saying, but this is what I was talking about. It was a detailed survey that was done in the 1730s, and the aerial diagrams are rather accurate:



As for a second sphinx, that is a possibility. They are presented in pairs, and the second could have been lost in the sands of time. The same person who produced the above video has also produced this, which is certainly thought provoking:



What I will say is this: we do not know the full extent of the site, and who knows what has been lost through time?

No, it was not a collaboration, unless you mean paying Lovecraft to ghostwrite the story as a collaboration.

HP Lovecraft had ghostwritten a good number of stories, as a way to earn income. His lack of economics meant he was significantly undercharging for his efforts, being much cheaper than the going rate.

Not a bad picture, though it is something of a butchery of Egyptian mythology. I don't recall a goat or hippo deity! There is Sobek and Ba'ast, and a distortion of Nefertiti. You also have the Aten sun disc imagary, which is not totally accurate. And I'm nitpicking the heck out of it, because of my obsession with detail. Sorry folks!

Could there be sphinxes in other parts of the world? This video makes the case or one such possibility, in Pakistan:

Mark Twain and the relic-hunter

Mark Twain saw an American tourist trying to chip away a relic from the face of the Sphinx:

“There are some things which, for the credit of America, should be left unsaid, perhaps; but these very things happen sometimes to be the very things which, for the real benefit of Americans, ought to have prominent notice. While we stood looking, a wart, or an excrescence of some kind, appeared on the jaw of the Sphynx. We heard the familiar clink of a hammer, and understood the case at once. One of our well meaning reptiles—I mean relic-hunters—had crawled up there and was trying to break a “specimen” from the face of this the most majestic creation the hand of man has wrought. But the great image contemplated the dead ages as calmly as ever, unconscious of the small insect that was fretting at its jaw. Egyptian granite that has defied the storms and earthquakes of all time has nothing to fear from the tack-hammers of ignorant excursionists—highwaymen like this specimen.”

True Williams’ illustration of the ‘reptile relic-hunter’, and another view of the Sphinx:

More London sphinxes

These early Victorian villas in Richmond Avenue, Islington have Egyptian-inspired decorations, including obelisks and pairs of guardian sphinxes flanking their doors: