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TH E SPH IN X IP AD U SER S Download Go o d R ea d er App IN TH IS ISSU E ALTER N ATIVE AR CH EOLOGY The Copper Scroll Conundrum By Philip Coppens The Sphinx By Joseph R . Jochmans, Lit.D. AN CIEN T M YSTER IES Easter Islands M ystery Script By R obert M . Schoch, Ph.D. ATLAN TOLOGY A King of Atlantis for Colombia By F rank Joseph CLASSIC ASTR OLOGY The Geometry of Transformation By Julie Loar COM M EN TAR Y Ancient Cities in the F orest By William B. Stoecker EAR LY R AYS IN ews N ews M ore N ews Even M ore N ews Still M ore N ews H OLISTIC H EALTH Lion or Jackal? By Joseph R . Jochmans, Lit.D. Author/R esearcher R obert Temple recently published The Sphinx Mystery (Inner Traditions, 2009). A virtual gold mine of information, the five-hundred-page-plus book is augmented by rare photographs and illustrations. H ighly recommended for anyone even slightly curious over the greatest of all Egyptian mysteries, the book will prove an important reference for years to come. Temple, however, draws a number of conclusions that need closer examination. One of the most controversial is that the Sphinx was never a recumbent lion but, ins tead, a guardian jackal or dog, called Anubis. (In A.R. #78 , geologist Dr. R obert Schoch responded to several criticisms made of himself by Temple and he also commented on Temples jackal theoryED.) Today, it is obvious that the monuments present head is too small for the body. Several contemporary Egyptologists believe that at some point in the distant past the human face of a Dynastic Pharaoh was added to the Sphinx. Indeed, the entire head has been re-carved and downsized, possibly from that of an older animal image, matching the rest of the body. But was it a lion or a jackal? The primary evidence for the Sphinx being leonine comes from the overwhelming testimony of Egyptian, Ptolemaic, Greek, R oman, early Christian, and medieval Arabic records, as well as the eyewitnes s accounts of numerous European travelers and scholars. At one point Temple expresses amazement at how old stories and legends passed down through many generations still manage to preserve their kernels of historical facts. H e gives several examples. And yet, a few chapters away, when confronted by the vast agreement among these very sources concerning the Sphinx as lion, he dismisses such testimony as age-old misconception perpetuated over millennia. If the information instilled in one set of stories can be accepted as truthful, then why cannot the near consensus observations made throughout time regarding the Sphinx likewise be trustworthy? Temple further states his belief that the body of the Sphinx could not have been a f eline because it is generally too narrow in shapeits stony back too horizontally straightto have been anything but t he sleek form of a jackal. But the real answer to the problem had to be the artistic limitations faced by the original sculptors. Very likely the Sphinx was shaped out of a gebel, a knobby rock protrusion found in many places in the Sahara-Libyan desert, of which the Giza plateau is only a small extension. Just south of the Sphinx is a good example of a gebel still in existencea large high-standing, shapeless mound of limestone well-worn through the ages by the surrounding

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wind-blown sands. Doubtless this is how the Sphinx began, before being sculpted into a definite animal form. We do not know, however, what the ancient gebels original contours were. It may have been that fashioning the arched back of a lion figure was not possible, because the top surface was already f lat. What we do know is that in the middle of the Sphinxs present back is a vertical tomb shaft, and at least one of the early European explorers of the Sphinx was of the opinion that this tomb may have been very old, even predynastic. In other words, it was already present when the monument was first carved, and the tomb had been excavated when the gebel was still intact. This would indicate that to be accessible, the tomb had been made in an already exis ting flat-surfaced environment. The dimensions of the original gebel outcropping probably determined how the Sphinxs upper layers were shaped. As the sculptors then cut down and removed the rock around the sides of the beast to it s base, its fashioning would still have been limited by the size and shape of the gebel. The intended image remained that of a lion, only a slenderlooking one. Perhaps the greatest objection to Temples idea of the Sphinx as Anubis is the fact that the existing geology of the monument would have prevented it. The reason the original, stony Sphinx body has a definite layered look with slightly different colorations is that the limestone, out of which the monument was originally carved, does not have a consistent stratification. The base is composed of a soft stone classified as type M ember I, and the reclining body is made up of an equally soft type M ember II. Such limestone is porous, lightweight, flakable, and very susceptible to weathering. It is for this reason that, over the ages, the ongoing deterioration of the Sphinx body caused a series of succeeding Dynastic, Ptolemaic, R oman and modern-day restorers to continually add brickwork to the original base in an attempt to preserve it from further erosion. In contrast, the head is of a much harder, more compact and heavier form of limestone with a noticeably darker appearance, designated as type M ember III. The advantage of such a stone is that, when carved, it better retains its shape and for a much longer timewhich is why the ancient sculptors chose it. But the major disadvantage is that such a layer, from which the entire head was fashioned, is very heavy. Even the pres ent, greatly downsized, head is slowly crushing the softer limestone of its neck and chest. M odern Egyptian restorat ion experts fear that the unbalanced weight of the head could ultimately cause the supporting limestone to crumble and dislodge the heavier stone cranium. F or this reason several excavators in the past two centuries have added cement collars around the neck. As ugly as they are, they have, nevertheless, kept the beast from nodding off and losing its perpetual sunrise gaze. Likewise, when it was recently suggested that the Sphinxs beardpieces of which were unearthed at the base and are kept in the Cairo and British M useumsbe re-attached, the Egyptian Department of Antiquities refused because the beard would have pulled the head too far forward, and the result ing imbalance might have broken off the head. Temples reconstruction of the Sphinx with the proposed head and countenance of Anubis would have been an impossible configurationeven self-destructive. Because of its strata, the much larger jackal head would have been mostly composed of type M ember III limestone which would have crushed the bodys sof ter rock. M oreover, an attempt to reproduce the most distinctive feature of Anubis facehis long protruding snoutcould only have resulted in pulling the entire weight of the head far forward, causing it to immediately break and separate. If, on the other hand, the original Sphinx had been a full-bodied lion with a feline head, a larger cranium would have been far more possible. A series of small ivory carvings from the earliest Dynasties depict the traditional imagery of a lion having a large head protruding from much lower on the front of the body just above its paws. Translating this onto the Sphinx monument, the lions head would have been positioned forward of where the chest now is, and composed of less weighty type M ember II rock, as would the thicker upper front legs that would have served as structural side supports for the head. The heavier type M ember III stone in such a leonine configuration would have been part of the lions mane, far better attached to the underlying strata over a wider area, and its weight more evenly distributed across the top. When the Sphinx was re-carved, the lion head was removed and the rock surface sculpt ed back to its present chest, the upper front legs likewise greatly reduced, while the newer human head emerged more on top of the body, out of the M ember III stratum. Because there probably was not much of this stratum t o begin with, the artists had to make the severe compromise of creating the new head proportionally smaller. U nfortunately, this refashioning began the unbalanced state of affairs for the Sphinxs human stone cranium which has been a problem ever since. Very significantly, we also find among the Pharaonic remains from the F irst through the Third Dynasties royal tablets which show very prominently the repeated figure of a lions head with mane and just its front paws, suggesting the rest of the leonine form was either unfinished or half-buried in sand. What is more, the face of the lion is blank with no eyes or mouth shown, as if its countenance had been worn away by a long period of wind erosion. If this was the actual image of the original Sphinx at Giza at a time when Egypt was just beginning, the signs of it already being well-weathered would indicate that the monument itself is really much older, possibly dating back far into the Predynastic era. Doubtless the early Dynastic Egyptian artisans would not have left such an important statue in such a deteriorated state and would, it seems, have attempted to repair it, giving it new features. At Abu R oash, within sight of Giza to the north, a small sphinx was found that some believe dates to the F ourth Dynasty. I t has the body of a lion, but its

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feline face was replaced with that of a woman. The head and mane are proportional to the body, but it has very human feminine facial features. If this reflects a parallel transformation the Sphinx itself may have undergone, it fulfills many legends and stories that at one time the reclining lion at Giza was also half woman. We recall the ancient Greek tale of Oedipus encountering the female sphinx creature in the desert and solving its deadly riddle. While Temples assertion does not work for the Sphinx having once been an image of Anubis, he nevertheless offers intriguing evidence that somewhere on the Giza plateau, there was indeed a cult shrine dedicated to the jackal god capped with a large statue which at one time may have matched the size of the Sphinx. H e notes, for example, that several of the more prominent royal mastabas or burial sites from the F ourth and F ifth Dynasties, which look out toward the southern portion of the Giza plateau, have tomb artwork portraying an oversized Anubis reclining on top of a sanctuary. The author mistakingly assumes this statue and sanctuary was the Sphinx and accompanying Sphinx Temple. But in actuality the Sphinx is situated more toward the eastern end of the plateau, much lower down and in its own valley, which could not have been easily seen from the mastabas in question. The actual statue figure of Anubis more than likely was located higher up on the plateau, closer to due south and west of the mastabas, where its view would have been more predominant and unobstructed. Temple quotes quite extensively from the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and other ancient funerary inscriptions regarding what was described as the mythical Land of R estau of the N ecropolis, which many interpreters feel was very real and was once located long ago in the Giza area. Several of the sacred U tterance texts refer to R estau having a sanctuary of Anubis that was situated near a causeway and was surrounded by a small body of water called Jackal Lake. Temple, in his excellent, extensive, firsthand observations of the immediate Sphinx environment, demonstrates that in olden times when the N ile river annually overflowed its banks, the flood plain reached to the very front of the Sphinx precincts, and that a still-existing narrow channel once equipped with sluice gates allowed these waters to surround the Sphinx itself in a small moat that was us ed for ritualistic purposes. H owever, Temple, in his claim that the Sphinx was once Anubis, mistakenly identifies the causeway referred to in the ancient texts as the Chephren Pyramid causeway that straddles the southern side of the Sphinx and the Sphinx moat as having been Jackal Lake. What he ignores are those U tterance texts which speak of causeways and lakes in the plural, so there was more than one location being des cribed. Looking at all the relevant funerary texts, we find there were, in fact, several major cult centers flourishing at Giza from a very early period of time, the now-lost Anubis shrine being only one of them. Temple makes the major erroneous assumption that all these cult centers were somehow coalesced together into one, and that one single place was around the Sphinx. This directly contradicts the various funerary texts which give very distinctive, even unique, descriptions for each center. By the very nature of what was being portrayed, these centers could never have been combined all together by any stretch of the imagination. The Anubis shrine that Temple is looking for was, more than likely, associated with the causeway of the M ycerinus or Third Pyramid of Giza. The author notes that the only sculpture of Anubis found t hroughout the plateau was a small green diorite statue of the god unearthed among the ruins of the M ycerinus funerary sanctuary just to the east of the Third Pyramid. In his book, Temple reproduces a N ASA photo of the entire Giza plateau which shows at its southern extremity, very near the M ycerinus causeway, the telltale signs of numerous buried walls and other structures not yet excavated. During those ancient times when the N ile seasonally overflowed, the flood plain once reached all the way around the southern end of the plateau to the very edge of the M ycerinus complex. Is this where Jackal Lake could have been situated? The funerary writings also described Anubis as the god at the top of his hilland if a large statue of the jackal god had indeed been placed there, then it could have been seen across the entire plateau to the north and for a far distance by water approach during the N ile flood season from the south. M ost likely, the now missing Anubis sanctuary and statue, instead of having been carved out of a gebel like the Sphinx, was constructed from local stonework that was later dismantled or buried in the surrounding sands when Giza was heavily damaged during the chaos that ended the Old Kingdom. Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved. Visit our website at: www.forqottenaqesresearch.com by admin - July 1st, 2010. F iled under: Alternative Archeology, Stories. 3 C o m m en ts to T h e Sp h in x 1. K. Margiani says: September 27, 2010 at 6:54 am H ello, The Sphinx and three pyramids are markers of time of new cycle that will be finis hed after few centuries in 2,400 50. 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Z ep-Tepi had been sacred to new cycle and was the proof about the beginning of the new epoch. We have a greatest epoch of the prohibited H istory. Lots of artifacts of the pre-flood history are forbidden by false fathers of the mainstreams. 30,000 Atlantian or Olmecian artifacts found by Scottish M ineralogist and Archeologist William N iven are hidden in the museums of N ew York and M exico. Lots of so called researches are written for the money, not for the Truth. They could rise lots of money for the falsification of the our real history. F athers of the falsifications led by Dr. Z ahi H awass and Dr . M ark Lehner have the ostrich position against the modern discoveries made by many investigators. These video clips in the link are taken from the interesting investigations and closely connected to the much more sensational discovery that the Atlantis City. If you know Geology can understand everything! http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter-25.htm The Giza complex is sacred to the global geo-catastrophe that started on 21 October 12,475 (10,465 B.C.) years ago. Sphinx indicates epoch of the event, i.e. Leos epoch. Three stars of the Orions belt indicate the three Giza pyramids at the event boundary and causeway from the middle pyramid to the sphinx indicates sunrise, i.e. 21-22, 23 October during the event. Of 21 October to 23 October continued EB geo-transfer and terrible earthquakes that formed last global deluge all over the Earth. U nder the crust situates huge M agma Ocean. Approximately deepness of the fiery M agma Ocean is measured ~400km. M antle plumes discovered by many geologists are the proofs about powerful liquid waves within the M agma Ocean. The waves are formed by penetration or rapid movement of the fiery liquid masses from the outer nucleus into the M agma Ocean (Asthenosphere). R eversal and recovery of the global M agnetic field, powerful wave deformation of the crust, runaway subductions and kilometers high tsunamis and partially or global extinctions are the side effects only. The Giza project began by survived Atlantians after 10,465 B.C. and finished approximately in 10,400 B.C. Of course the project had been sacred to last global deluge. Thus minimal age of the Sphinx and three pyramids is that 10.400+2010=12.410 years. It has no alternative. Whole Elite of the modern Geology want to say to egyptologist that the Sphinx has the much older age but the egyptologists have the ostrich position ?????? http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter-(31).pdf http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter-(32).pdf http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter-(33).pdf Thus the megalithic complex of the Giza sacred to last global deluge in 10,465B.C. To explain each periodical global deluge we have the additional proofs as well. There are discovered shift and reversal of the magnetic poles by many scientists. Scientific falsifications are interrelated to the wrong authorities and they have the ostrich position against my discoveries but the reversal events have been discovered by best scientists, best intellectuals of the world. Each reversal event has an interesting and only explanat ion. These events are the proofs about powerful liquid waves within outer nucleus. Only one force of the universe can do it. This is an amazing geological force EB geo-transfer. It causes penetration or rapid movement the outer nucleus masses under the crust and mantle plumes, powerful liquid waves within M agma Ocean, deformation all over the crust, kilometers high tsunamis and shifting all lithosphere platforms over the 1000-1500km. Shift of the geographical poles are discovered by many scientists as well. shift of all lithosphere platforms over the 1000-1500km means drifting of the continents for few days over the 1000-1500km. Only one force of the universe can do something like this powerful liquid waves under the crust, within M agma Ocean. Thus future of the modern geology is that Gradualism + catastrophic plate tectonics [periodical global deluges all over the earth]. It means that every 7,000-13,000 years runaway subduction and drift ing of the continents for few days over the 1000-1500km. Best wishes, K. M argiani F ounder new field of science Cosmogeology 2. K. Margiani says: December 17, 2010 at 6:08 pm All well-known pyramids of Egypt: Khufus, Khafres, M enkaures, Djosers, M eidum, bent and red pyramids are sacred to Atlantis people, to revere souls of the Atlantis people. Additionally the Giza complex exactly indicates the astronomical date of the deluge (221 October 10,465B.C.). Thus the Giza complex had been sacred to global deluge in 10,465B.C. as well. Symbolical graves in the pyramids have been sacred to victims, to their souls. The treasures, things and tools in the closed rooms of the pyramids are the heavenly gifts for the souls. Best wishes, K. M argiani F ounder new field of science Cosmogeology 3. K. Margiani says:

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April 1, 2011 at 1:59 pm Sensational news for the mankind and the ground breaking news for the modern Egyptologists! Deadlines for the Giza complex (Three pyramids and Sphinx) and other four epochal pyramids! Giza Complex 10,400 B.C. 1. R ed Pyramid 30 June 10,172 B.C. (1- st Thoth first epochal heliacal rise of t he star Sirius after the global deluge) 2. Bent Pyramid 3 July 8 ,699 B.C. ([2 step] 1- st Thoth Second epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge) 3. M eidum Pyramid 6 July 7,226 B.C. ([3 step] 1- st Thoth Third epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge) 6. Step Pyramid 15 July 2,8 07 B.C. ([6 step] 1- st Thoth sixth epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge) The Giza complex had been built by survived Atlantians. U sing Intellectual and technical forces of the survived colonies the complex was sacred to Atlantis people to revere souls of the people. U s ing the stellar coordinates of the Sun, Leo and Orion, exact date of the Deluge had been written in the complex. Of course the complex was sacred to last global deluge as well. 1. U sing survived metallic instruments and geo-polymeric technologies Deadline for t he R ed Pyramid was interrelated to Egyptian epochal new year 1- st Thoth, first epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge. The pyramid had been built by Intellectual and technical forces of the survived colonies. R ed pyramid was sacred to Atlantis people to revere souls of the people. 2. U sing survived metallic instruments and geo-polymeric technologies Deadline for t he Bent Pyramid was interrelated to Egyptian epochal new year 1- st Thoth, second epochal heliacal ris e of the star Sirius after the global deluge. The pyramid had been built by Intellectual and technical forces of the survived colonies. Bent Pyramid has two steps and was sacred to Atlantis people to revere souls of the people. 3. U sing remaining metallic instruments Deadline for the M eidum Pyramid was interrelated to Egyptian epochal new year 1- st Thoth, Third epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge. The pyramid had been built by Intellectual and technical forces of the survived colonies. M eidum pyramid has three steps and was sacred to Atlantis people to revere souls of the people. Assimilated generation of the Atlantis people because of inter race wedding: kings, territorial rulers, elites, priests, etc worldwide could not save the ancient knowledge and technologies. U sing limestone of the huge pre-flood pyramid, M eidum pyramid had built on base of the pre-flood pyramid. Survived base of the pre-flood pyramid has the pre-flood geographical orientations. M eidum pyramid has the modern geographical orientations. - F or millenniums metallic instruments have been eaten by corrosion. - F or millenniums the assimilated generation to primitive aborigines could loss almost all wisdom and technologies. - F or millenniums survived cities built by Atlantians worldwide have been destroyed by wild tribes. 6. U sing new bronze instruments Deadline for the Djosers step Pyramid was interrelated to Egyptian epochal new year 1- st Thoth, Sixth epochal heliacal rise of the star Sirius after the global deluge. The pyramid had been built by intellectual and technical forces of the Egyptian people led by elites assimilated generation of the pre-flood race from Atlantis. The step pyramid has six steps and was sacred to Atlantis people to revere souls of the people. The amazing and impressive things made by Atlantians have been discovered in the Djosers step pyramid only. The closed (secret) rooms of the R ed, Bent, M eidum and the Giza pyramids are awaiting discoverers still. We have the proofs on archeological working at the dynastic epoch to find the closed secret rooms in the pyramids. Pharaohs were looking for treasures, things, weapons etc made by Atlantis. Symbolical meaning of the four epochal pyramids (red, bent, medium and step) is a Garden of Eden Dim stars under the Orions belt. Thus falsifications of the mankinds H istory are decoded! Im sure the F alsifiers are glad! http://vixra.org/abs/1102.0053 Atlantis had been sunken in the Atlantic Ocean in 10,465 B.C. There are many left-handed individuals in the Indo-European race still and among the N egroids as well. R uler of the most powerful country is a left-handed individual Obama. Wandering genes of the left-handed race have many individuals of the world. These genes are dispersed in the Indo-European race mainly. Suddenly these genes can explode in your generation, please dont wonder! Please dont wonder if you are an assimilated individual of the natural left-handed race from Atlantis. Etymology of the word Atlantian came from Atl-atum souls of water

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M ost famous pre-flood joke was that Even the blood is a blue N ame of a member of the aristocracy came from Atlantis Blue-blooded Elites of the almost all countries; kings, queens, priests, aristocracyetc came from Atlantis. Everything started from the pre-flood agriculture development worldwide. N ame of the Atlantic Ocean is interrelated to Atlantis Source of all myths and legends generally is interrelated to Atlantis. etc http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter_files/image001.png Best wishes K. M argiani F ounder new field of science Cosmogeology

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