The Sphinx is a reliable keeper of ancient secrets …
There has long been a legend that the Great Sphinx on the Giza plateau once had a double. A renowned explorer, William Flinders Petrie spent a lot of time in search of the statue of the second Sphinx, mentioned in medieval Arabic manuscripts. But not only Arab sources mention the existence of the second sphinx. For example, there is a detailed image of him on a stele of Thutmose, installed in the 15th century BC. between the front paws of the Sphinx …
At the top of the stele is the image of Atum, the hidden supreme god - the image of Ra. In the Pyramid Texts (24th century BC), Atum is mentioned, in particular, in chapter 600: “O Atum, Guardian, you are getting higher, you rise like the Ben-Ben stone (the legendary stone that crowned the pyramid, which disappeared without a trace - approx.) in the nest of Bennu (Phoenix) … . The surviving pyramidion of Amonmhat III bears the image of the winged disc Atum. But the most interesting thing is further: the image in the form of sphinxes of two Aker lions, personifying sunrise and sunset, east and west.
Lions Aker, like Atum, are mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, which indicates the prevalence of the Aker cult during the Old Kingdom. But if the first of the two lions, Horus-m-Aket, Horus on the Horizon, has been perfectly preserved to our time, then did the second Sphinx ever exist? Undoubtedly, assuming that there were once two sphinxes on the Giza plateau, you need to look for a second, missing lion somewhere in the west. In addition, given the desire of the ancient Egyptians for symmetry, it is safe to assume that the second Sphinx is located on the other side of the north-south axis, passing through the center of the pyramid …
If we consider the stele of Thutmose as a map, it is safe to assume that the second Sphinx should be located directly under the pyramid of Khafre, exactly 59 cubits (30.8m) north of the middle of the southern side of the pyramid, about 41m below the outer surface of the pyramid.
And, probably, the second Sfinsk was also associated with the otherworldly "underground" world of the dead. Which gives a direct hint - there should have been an underground tunnel right under it …
Of course, it is not possible to test the hypothesis, since no one in Egypt will give permission to drill a well 41m deep in the Khafre pyramid. And if this suddenly happened, then, quite possibly, archaeologists would have found in this place a chamber with the symbol of the second Sphinx, or even an underground passage leading to the unexplored depths of the Giza plateau …
Meanwhile, simple geometric and mathematical calculations * (we will not bring them here to save space - approx.) Confirm: the second Sphinx really once existed. As well as the fact that there was a single and thought out to the smallest details plan for the architectural development of the Giza plateau … Its "authorship" belongs to the so-called "civilization of the gods", and if ordinary ancient Egyptians participated in it, it was only at the level of simple performers, labor.
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But where, then, did the second Sphinx go and why was it dismantled, like the Ben-Ben stone, the top of the pyramid?..
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