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    sphinx


    1. Sphinx coins at the poplar tree where I’d recite


    2. While we were waiting to be served, the couple behind us started berating the waiter, who seemed to have the patience of a Sphinx


    3. Falcon and Sphinx would become fundamentals of his


    4. Originally, in Mesopotamia, the word referred to a winged sphinx with human head and animal body, placed at the entrances of sanctuaries and palaces as divine intercessors and guardians” (Amer


    5. Walter longed for the Nile moaning past its Egyptian sands, and a glimpse of the sphinx


    6. were in a love hotel, the Cleopatra room; she was lying on the Sphinx bed half-naked, and


    7. Of the Sphinx itself


    8. The photo of this Sphinx rock


    9. “What sort of face did the Sphinx have when it was first carved?”


    10. The symbol of the Sphinx has been used on other planets in addition to Earth and Mars

    11. I said, “I’ve been enjoying The Message of the Sphinx, by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval


    12. They claim that the Sphinx represents the constellation Leo and faced it when it rose at the vernal equinox around 25,000 years ago


    13. We were viewing the Sphinx when I noticed, off the beaten path, the decorated stone facade of a half-buried ruin and went to explore it


    14. enters into the city, he encounters the Sphinx


    15. In many representations, the Sphinx has the body of an animal and the


    16. The Sphinx in Thebes would force everyone who passed by


    17. to resolve its riddles; if someone could answer correctly, the Sphinx would die;


    18. Oedipus encounters the Sphinx, who asks him its riddle, but Oedipus


    19. manages to solve it and so the Sphinx kills itself


    20. a monstrous Sphinx that was devouring millions of victims; then the Russians

    21. Oedipus is one who knows the secret of the Sphinx and he also wants to


    22. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself


    23. The vision changed to Sphinx House in London, headquarters for the


    24. that had once led up to the Great Sphinx of Giza, and final y to the bronze


    25. golden sphinx appeared, with a lion’s body and the head of a woman


    26. sphinx lady like she was a merry-go-round animal


    27. ” Zia pointed to the Great Sphinx, which stood


    28. rendezvoused at the feet of the Great Sphinx and studied the newly blasted


    29. “Pul !” The red god shot lightning at a stone sphinx and blasted it to


    30. Walt released a dozen magical creatures at once—his sphinx, his

    31. The photo here is of a White-lined Sphinx moth, Hyles lineata, a member of the large moth family Sphingidae


    32. These moths have many common names, including sphinx moths, hawk moths, hummingbird moths, and hornworms (I prefer sphinx because it sounds neat)


    33. The tobacco hornworm, a notorious tobacco pest, is the caterpillar of a sphinx moth


    34. Sphinx: Symbolic meaning deals with guardianship and protection of the secrets of life


    35. In the familiar story, Oedipus ascends the throne as a result of solving the riddle of the Sphinx


    36. Intended as eternal monuments to the god kings of Egypt and as everlasting sanctuaries for their bodies, the pyramids, like the Sphinx, retain their enigma


    37. The Mandrill (Mandrillus Sphinx) is closely related to the


    38. deep between the front legs of the Sphinx but in reality it


    39. paws of the Giza Sphinx, the museum claimed it was a


    40. that if this hall existed it may be beneath the Sphinx, but I

    41. Cairo, was originally found beneath the Sphinx, between


    42. Some of those astounding construction projects are considered among the most significant of all time, including such magnificent works as the Great Sphinx and pyramid complex at Giza


    43. there are three icons of Egyptian origin: on the top sits a Sphinx,


    44. 49 We might be glad that the sphinx has recently replaced the


    45. River Mother: The Face of the Sphinx: is a novel set in the Mother Goddess period of Neolithic, preliterate Nubia


    46. Her powerful leadership eventually led the people of the delta to honor her as a living Goddess by carving her face onto a rocky outcropping that was gradually transformed over the next 3500 years into what we now know as the Great Sphinx of Giza


    47. There is a companion web site to the book, When Was the Sphinx Really Built and Why at:


    48. Click here too visit is a companion web site to the book, When Was the Sphinx Really Built and Why


    49. In it, River Mother tells of her life—from her birth to her early training as a Nubian shaman to the prophetic visions that drove her to travel to the Nile delta—where her leadership and prophecies not only established the unique male/ female balance central to all Egyptian spirituality, but also helped save the inhabitants of the Nile delta from the great tsunami caused by the eruption of Mt Aetna—and in so doing eventually led the people of the delta to honor her as a living Goddess by carving her face onto a rocky outcropping that was gradually transformed over the next 3500 years into what we now know as the Great Sphinx of Giza


    50. From out point of view, this principle is clearly shown in a Sphinx











































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    Synonyms for "sphinx"

    sphinx secret enigma bewilderment

    "sphinx" definitions

    an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret


    (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon


    one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians