'One of Khufu's most sacrilegious and unforgivable
acts was almost certainly the defacing of the Great Sphinx of Giza, which was converted from the image of an animal-god to a hybrid image of animal-and-king. The recarving of its face in the image of Khufu explains why
the head of the Sphinx appears unusually small compared to its body.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 364)'The Great Sphinx is much less lion-like than generally assumed, and appears to be a dog-cat-human hybrid.'
(The Phoenix Solution caption to Plate 5)
'it seems to me that Robert Temple was at least partially correct when he asserted that the Sphinx has 'no mane, no tufted tail (and) no raised haunches', which we would
expect of a lion. Nor does it have the powerful shoulders of a lion.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 365)
'Egyptian lion sphinxes were generally built in pairs, protecting the entrances to temples - a trend which must
make us wonder whether the solitary Great Sphinx of Giza was originally some animal other than a lion.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 283)
'there is only one Sphinx - it is not a Double-Lion-god or a
Double-anything-god.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 365)
'... powerful arguments in favour of the Sphinx's original identity as Anubis... Anubis was a singular god... and the Sphinx is indeed singular... the mythical
Anubis existed at the surface of the Earth... which is exactly the case with the Sphinx [and]... Anubis was the god who took care of Osiris' body...'
(The Phoenix Solution pp. 365-66)
'The only barrier to the
identity of the Sphinx as Anubis, in my view, is its cat-like tail, and serious consideration must be given to the possibility that this feature was added by Khufu for symbolic reasons. Perhaps archaeologists might take
a closer look at the Sphinx's rear end...'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 367)
'The Sphinx... a creature with its body signifying death in the underworld, and its raised face, looking to the east, representing a future
afterlife.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 367)
'the Sphinx - a supreme solar symbol in the eyes of Egyptologists - was actually an exploded planet symbol. Why else would it be called Hor-em-Akhet
, 'Horus, Dweller in the Two Horizons'? After all, according to the theory of Egyptologists, the Sphinx faces only towards one horizon - the east. The answer is that the Earth itself was one of the
horizons (the 'west'), whilst the second horizon was Heaven (the 'east'). Thus the Sphinx did indeed symbolise the king dwelling in two 'horizons', i.e. the two planetary horizons.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 114)
'The Great Sphinx of Giza gazes towards the distant 'mountain' in the eastern side of the Sky, where the king's double was thought to dwell in the land of his earliest ancestors.'
(When The Gods Came Down caption to Plate 37)
