Great Beasts of Legend: The Strong Silent Type: The Sphinx
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2017
- Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Associate Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum and co-author of The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia
The varied roles of the sphinx in ancient Egypt are examined in this Great Beasts of Legend lecture. Egyptian religious imagery gives us an awesome assortment of fantastic hybrid beings and deities that are half-human, half-animal, or a composite of numerous creatures. Perhaps none of these beings are as evocative as the sphinx. Usually depicted as a human-headed lion, the sphinx was a protective entity and sphinx imagery appeared in Egyptian art, architecture, and texts for thousands of years.
For further reading:
Wegner, Josef, and Jennifer Houser Wegner. 2015. The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia: The Story of the Colossal Sphinx in the Penn Museum. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, PA).
www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/2...
I'm impressed that, for this series, YT commenters know so much more than people who spend their careers on the subjects.
Not an argument, no facts to prove "they" are wrong (which they probably are).
Still : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Graham Handcock conspiracies are more popular than 'the love of science' & the scientific method of peer review.
+Galidorn what good is peer review when they all come from the same discipline peer review is like asking 10 different priests facts about Jesus
@@rogerjackson9745 you're comparing the scientific method to theologians picking canon.... this is why we can't have nicer things. All major break throughs came against scrutiny weathering it is the point...
But I must ask, is someone sooo supposedly passionate about a subject who happens to be completely financially cappable willing to get a degree in the field and produce papers on theory but doesnt, might writting from the shield of "I'm not an expert" be a nice way to continue selling books and not be held accountable for conflating inaccuracy. If I made that much money writting on a subject I'd spend some on the degree for it.
How do you know who is who in the comments?
Very nice lecture!
Excellent
Listening to how much 1930s Americans struggled to transport (steal) the sphinx just makes you admire the ancient egyptians more. Ramses watched all of that, you know.
THE LION !!!! 👆❤🙏❤☝🐦!!!! TY JOHN !!!!
Thanks for this! The Sphinx has always been a personal favorite of mine. The story of moving the sphinx to Penn was really cool too.
People do seem fascinated with what might be called 'Man-Beasts' with the most obvious in popular culture nowadays being werewolves. Also harpies, centaurs and minotaurs. In very early cultures it is an simple leap to start worshipping animals, especially ones that have clear prowess in things such as hunting, or locomotion, or even flying. What would be a better expression of admiration and respect than to symbolically imbue oneself with their power? By wearing their skins or ritual. How many folk tales were passed down for this?
@William You give in one comment more content than this lecturer.
I wish she would have spoke on the tomb, and large granite sarcophagi for a lack of a better term that are underneath the sphinx.
Yes!!
This was very informative, thank you for uploading this session! Greetings from Hungary!
I think we need a full lecture on "serpotards".
She says that the sphinx cost $794.02 in 1912 money but she does not convert this into modern day values. I could only find 1914 to today (2017) values which would be $19,170.18.
Still pretty cheap to ship 12 tons from Egypt to Philly.
Very weird, that she did not say a word about: lamassu, cherubim, akkadian karibu, or sphinx like creatures from hittities myths, Mesopotamia could be the birth place of this style, as well as Kemet.
The Sphinx
Horemakhet
Her Em Akhet
Heru on the Horizon
Heru Khuti
Mars
Aten
A wonderful talk, thank you.
14:48 Any visual representation I've ever seen of the Sphinx in the Oedipus story depicts it as female.
True.
42:36 ". . . that recumbent lion with the paws outstretched and lying sort of flat on his haunches . . " "Recumbent" is defined as "lying down on your back, prostrate" The sphinx is more often depicted in a prone position.
@26:33 you are seeing things, there is something there but not that much off.
19: 10 it is clearly not a lion . It's either a jackal , decoding Anubis the god of death which expresses the event , or a dog , decoding the star Sirius which is often associated with the Orion constellation which is in turn , as widely known , represented by the figure with the raised- up hand and a foot stepped forward.
look again. I agree it is not easy to see here, but it is a lioness www.penn.museum/collections/object_images.php?irn=304146
If you think it is Anubis, it is not. Schoch said it best. If it was Anubis it would be facing west. It is not. As to the Orion connection, who knows. Let us conjecture rationally. 🤔
My question goes to the original pharao who made this colossal Sphinx: was that really Ramses II, known as a great usurper of colossal statues of his predecessors, or was one of his predecessors?
is the "strong silent type" a Sopranos reference ?
No just a well known saying
1:17:40
The Idea Of killing and the Sphinx is definitely a purposely wrong question to ask in this session as one of those last questions of doubts - Finalizing with a Doubting Thomas attitude is certainly not what we need!
Because the Sphinx Came Before this damage and Protects itself by itself.
__ Conclusion : __ It is because that is Your cross / crossing problem... and you are throwing it as usual at your adversaries.
Nice Catch ! Head on! Great Video.
Truly an eye opener. I really hope one day we all sees the truth equally as equal suns living under the same sun.
They were not ancient Egyptians they were something else, Don't you think the Egyptians today would be more onto it..
in the 25th minute on ,.. her description and astronomical alignments are kinda strange and somewhat misleading that stuff about solar alignments can't be right unless the sun has moved or Sphinx moved . Sun rose in the West?
Either that was just a slip of the tongue, or perhaps the hieroglyph is indeed supposed to be of a rising (rather than a setting) sun. It would look the same in either case, but *maybe* the Egyptians described exactly what it was supposed to represent, and *maybe* they did so early enough that the original meaning had not shifted.
Check out Science Literacy. The Sun doesn't always rise in the East and set in the West.
Willie Riley The sun doesn't always rise DUE EAST or set DUE WEST, but it always rises on the eastern side of the horizon and sets on the western size of the horizon. You can see the full range of the sun's paths across the sky and the sun's current position for any given location -- Cairo, for example -- at suncalc.org.
Not according to Neil Degrasse Tyson, it was him that I was quoting.
Willie Riley
Point me to what he said exactly.
Ancient Clay tablets speak to us about the creation of the great Lion... They say: This is a monument to the designer and builder of the "Mountains of the way showing". His name was Ningishzidda, during the age of the Lion. Ningishzidda's face was the original caved, It was re-carved by a jealous older brother named Marduk. Later to be re-named Ra. The new caved face is of Marduk's son, that is what you see now. Ningishzidda and his followers were banished to the americas and a new civilization started with a new look on pyramids. A combination of a Zudarack and a pyramid.
Ah, I see we have a Sitchin fan here. Totally Ok with me. May not agree with it but that is Ok as well. The standard history of the Sphinx is obviously wrong anyway. Good show. 👍🏻
Como la historieta de la luna
1:02:44
how many times will; she say UMM
Her comments about the head of the Sphinx and the two pyramids echoing/modeling the horizon as the sun rises doesn't make sense. According to Wikipedia, the Sphinx faces east. According to Google maps, it lies east of the two pyramids. The images she shows are views made facing slightly north of west.
Has anyone ever thought that the sphinx may represent the Sumerian Anzu?
This is the secret.
We begin with the Sphinx in Egypt/Kemet who is called, Horemakhet.
If your familiar with Aleister Crowley and Thelema, we'll tie the God of Aleister Crowley back to the Sphinx.
And to the Aten. Because it is the Aten.
First lets read the Dream Stele.
As you know the Dream Stele was written by the grandfather of Akhenaten, Thutmoses iv.
When we read the Dream Stele we see it says this:
* I am your father Horemakhet ( Heru Khuti ) Khepera Ra Atum*
This is the God of the Sphinx said to Thutmoses iv. You also see the name of Ra Harakhte.
Ra Harakhte is Ra Heru Khuti.
Now the name Ra Heru Khuti is important. This is who those who are into egyptian or the Kemetic teachings calls Ra.
But his name is Ra Heru Khuti.
Lets go back to the Sphinx. In Kemet/Egypt it's called Horemakhet or Her Em Akhet.
Remember I'm gonna show this is the Aten and the God of Aleister Crowley and Thelema.
But first I want you to read the Great Hymn to the Aten. Here you'll see that it is dedicated to the God of his grandfather Thutmoses iv, Ra Heru Khuti or as he addressed Thutmoses iv in the Dream Stele:
" I am your father Horemakhet Khepera Ra Atum"
The Aten is Ra Heru Khuti..
Compare it to the Dream Stele and it is also dedicated to Ra Heru Khuti.
The Aten..
Once again let's return to the Sphinx or Horemakhet.
This is the secret.
Horemakhet is Her Em Akhet ( Sphinx )
Her Em Akhet is Heru on the Horizon.
Heru on the Horizon is Heru Khuti
Heru Khuti is Mars and not the Sun.
It should read:
* I am your father Heru Khuti Khepera Ra Atum *
But it's veiled as:
* I am your father Horemakhet ( Heru Khuti/Mars ) Khepera Ra Atum*
Read the story of Ra and Auset.
Ra revealed his secret name as this:
I am Khepera
I am Ra ( Ra Heru Khuti-Aten)
I am Ra Atum..
Who am I?
The secret name of Ra is Heru Khuti
Heru Khuti is:
Khepera
Ra ( Ra Heru Khuti-Aten)
Ra Atum
Heru Khuti Khepera Ra Atum or as he addressed Thutmoses iv in the Dream Stele:
* I am your father Horemakhet ( Heru Khuti ) Khepera Ra Atum*
In the Book of the Dead Ra says,
" I AM RA WHO ART HERU KHUTI*
Ra is Heru Khuti
Heru Khuti is Horemakhet
Her Em Akhet
Mars
Hence his name is Ra Heru Khuti
Ra Horakhty
Ra Harmachis
Har Machu
The Aten is Ra Heru Khuti
Ra Heru Khuti is the God of Aleister Crowley and Thelema.
Ra Heru Khuti is Mars
The Sphinx
Horemakhet
Her Em Akhet
Heru Khuti
It was Heru Khuti that defeated Set.
The Winged Sun Disc is in honor of Heru Behutet.
Heru Behutet is Heru Khuti
Heru Khuti is Mars
* Medu Neter Vol 1 page 226*
Akhenaten is High priest of Ra Heru Khuti the exalted one of the Horizon.
The secret name of Ra is Heru Khuti.
Heru Khuti is Mars
Note;
In the Christian faith Heru Khuti is Elohim Gibor.
Elohim Gibor is Geburah
Geburah is Mars
Mars is Heru Khuti..
Ra is Heru Khuti
Jesus is Elohim Gibor
Also Samael= Elohim Gibor
The Great Hymn to the Aten
Translated by John A. Wilson
Praise of Re Har-akhti,( Ra Heru Khuti ) Rejoicing on the Horizon, in His Name as Shu Who Is in the Aton-disc, living forever and ever; the living great Aton who is in jubilee, lord of all that the Aton encircles, lord of heaven, lord of earth, lord of the House of Aton in Akhet-Aton; (and praise of) the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, who lives on truth, the Lord of the Two Lands: Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re; the Son of Re, who lives on truth, the Lord of Diadems: Akh-en-Aton, long in his lifetime; (and praise of) the Chief Wife of the King, his beloved, the Lady of the Two Lands: Nefer-neferu-Aton Nefert-iti, living, healthy, and youthful forever and ever; (by) the Fan-Bearer on the Right Hand of the King ... Eye.
Sphinx Represent the Sun god Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum
Sphinx Represent the god Re-Harakhte ( Ra Heru Khuti ) or (Harmakhis/Horemakhet according to other translations), the sun god.
"Dream Stele, that can still today be found between the paws of the great Sphinx at Giza. In Tuthmosis IV's "Dream Stele", he tells us that, while out on a hunting trip, he fell asleep in the shadow of the Sphinx (or apparently, the shadow of the Sphinx's head, for the monument was apparently buried in sand at the time). In the young prince's sleep, Re-Harakhte,( Ra Heru Khuti ) the sun god embodied in the Sphinx, came to him in a dream and promised that if he would clear away the sand that engulfed the monument, Tuthmosis would become king of Egypt.
It was noon time the sun was strong so the prince chose to lie down in the shadow of the sphinx. As he was sleeping he heard the Sphinx speak with his own mouth saying :
I am your father, Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum. I shall give to you the kingship (upon the land before the living)...(Behold, my condition is like one in illness), all (my limbs being ruined). The sand of the desert, upon which I used to be, (now) confronts me; and it is in order to cause that you do what is in my heart that I have waited."
The Citrus Sphinx glories all effulgent.
Ma At - The Feather
This seems to be the Feather of Love
Love - The Love that is put to scale - only for the people who claimed God to be Love.
The second Pyramid ... has only 1 Chamber > 1 way.
It is the one aligned to the transfigured / transmuted / Incorporeal / Sun Dial / Vision Sphinx / that sees all humans as Suns (as he has only 1 riddle) /
I think the question is - If they are all empty - Then the Question is - projected onto us!
It's about Choice.
Which Pyramid along with its significance do you align to ?
Which Planet - kind of Earth - Would you Choose ?
Maybe then you can use this Compass To find the Treasure of the after life.
Meaning - The Truth - and how it is Mirrored.
And how you might find yourself and others in this formula.
I have Found myself in Khufu.
May Peace be upon you.
Islam Is the Truth.
It is aligned to earth and to the Moon and Sun.
dont u girls always say size dont matter?
Just Imagine if they lived among animals knowing their languages.
Knowing the language of plants and even Stone and gravity.
Ni
Could this giant talking snake represented next to a pear tree that threatens with knowledge of one's self be the original inspiration for the Jewish story of the snake that tricks Eve into taking a bite of the forbidden fruit in Genesis? After all the Jewish took some customs as well as knowledge from the Egyptians...
Auta einai paramithia
Seems to be a "good suggestion"... wonderful we've based our entire foundation of "history" on good suggestions...we've long SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN IN 33 SPECIFC WAYS that none of these attributions of Giza are remotely accurate...EVEN THE EGYPTIANS didn't even take credit for it in any way...this is litteral so you tell me why we now give them credit for something they themselves don't? But sure, I'm the insane one
The snake who threatens the sailor in the Shipwrecked sailor has very strange symetrical loops on the document shown : 6 x 2 on the left and 5 x 2 on the right : a double scale of two bases.The dimensions of the beast (30 and 2) are not fantastic they refer to something abstract. What can they refer to ?
The "hair" of the sphinx, the "nemes headdress" presents a very precise order and it is rigourously divided in two equal parts. The sphinx is a pharaonic figure. The pharaon is the encarnation of the SUN god in our dimension. The head of the sphinx cuts the world in two equal parts like the sun cuts Earth in two equal parts, when one part is enlightened, the other part is in the shadow. The pharaon rules his kingdom like the sun "makes" the night and day cycle. : his authority is depicted as natural and indisputable. The head of the sphinx (with a clear East-West orientation in the Gizeh plateau) is the SUN that cuts the round Earth or the big triangular mountain in two and we should analyse very carefully the number of lines that organise the nemes headdresses and the beards because it could give us precious clues about measure. This idea occurred to me after studying carefully Gilgamesh epic because in Gilgamesh, the end of the world, the limit of the world is signaled by two twin mounts. The image of the sphinx is comparable though both civilisations (Mesopotamian and Egyptian) have each their own interpretation of the concept. In Mesopotamia, Enkidu and GIlgamesh have strange, regular curly hairs and beards, Gudea wears a very curious perfect round turban whereas the assyrian hybrid bulls have improbable curls in their hairs and in their beards... The ruler of the cedar forest (crossed by straight paths) Humbaba has stripes in his hair and he is assisted by hybrid creatures the SARSARU snake-birds. The territory is protected by the combination of the two animals and we find them on Toutankhamon (or whoever else)'s mask. What a strange coincidence. The claim of such a huge knowledge and wisdom (snake-soil, bird-sky, lion-strength of the top predator in the food chain) is an assertion of indisputable legitimity to rule a territory. The figure is impressive and makes the message clear for both insiders and outsiders !
The tail of the sphinx is wrapped around the right side, we have to consider it as the "dexter" side associated to light when the left side is the "sinister" side that corresponds to darkness. The Sun God Šamaš on Mesopotamia cylinder seals, cuts the big Mountain Earth in two twin mounts : he holds a sword or a knife in his right raised arm when his left arm is down and touches the other mount. This asymetry corresponds to the asymetry between night and day : Earth can never be enlightened on both sides at the same time !
(It is also Saint Michael's attitude, golden solar figure on the Saint-Michael's mount church spine in France !
france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/normandie/l-archange-retrouve-le-sommet-du-mont-saint-michel-1006563.html)
Look how hard she had to try, and fail, to describe the sphinx THAT ISNT EGYPTIAN? BABYLON HAD THEM TOO DID THEY NOT? And they got it supposedly from even more ancient history...the concept we have of Egyptian IS NOT EVEN SENSIBLE
The birthing 'wands'... Are they not boomerangs?
Man, piercing voice.
not that bad man,,,I live in Spain,,,,,, ,,,,
Oh no! An intelligent woman! Quick, don't listen to her lecture: retreat to the comment section and weave your insecure misogyny into an incomprehensible comment!
Flavourless - don't be naïve., ...you sound hysterical.
@@mjonhouston Did you read the comment section? What it is about inteligent women that makes weak men so upset?
@@mjonhouston On re-reading I suspect you were being ironic.
Snowflake warning!
Less jokes next time
sphinxter boy
Frigging ancient egyptian spoiler tags.
All that money, education, hard work and time... Yet the truth slips right through your fingers.
The jingling and clinking of all that costume jewelry was super distracting BTW.
she showed you photos describing what she calls Egyptian sphinx variations...lol, some of them are even faces of what is considered Egyptian!!! Lol one of them even had the faces of the OLMEC!!! sorry, I just hate when ppl lie when it's so clear they should know they're lying but still dont...and no, she doesn't know she is lying...prob is she thinks she is telling the truth...that's even worse
Small nitpick but I do wish the lecturer would stop referring to the sphinx as "theirs" (i.e. Penn's) - I find this all too typical of the west's, and yes specifically Penn's, attitude toward the artifacts they pilfer
It is "theirs;" The Penn Museum excavations were done in partnership with the Egyptian authorities and the findings were split between them. That's why the colossal sphinx of Memphis is in Egypt (also discovered by the Penn archeologists) and the Penn Center sphinx is in Philly.
Thanks for the useless side angle
Can't watch this. She be thinks Kufu built the pyramids. That's 1950's thinking.
moral of the story learn how to swim and no one seen the rush of water come from the ocean in shore then dragging everything back into the ocean and leaving that big scar
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They are boomerang s. I'm out.
wat a great topic and wat a excuse for a feminine energy dis waste ov opportunity was
They thought it was a Lion but actually, it is a Cat..........that why too many mummified cats found not a single lion being mummified in the tomb.......Logically if Lion was so honourable why don't it being mummified??????
Well, a mummified lion has recently been discovered in Saqqara. There is a documentary on Netflix about it :)
@@nightowlmuse729 what the title may i know
but still it can be cat.
@@sangsepurba a Lion ITS a big cat huh ?
@@emanuelmarquez3520 ya phroah also a big king liked god , just a lion or elephant it's nothing to them compare to pyramid dohhh...
@@sangsepurba Lion tiger AND Cats aré from the same Branch, felins .
Sad to say she is not a good speaker
So many inaccuracies, misleading statements and claims and just plain BS in just one video.
Unsubscribed
could you give an example for the uneducated ?
I was interested up until 23:00 when she inferred that the Great Spinx was the face of Khafra. She can't be that blind can she? After all the research done on this statue she is still in denial. She just proved to be a phony.
If "all that research" had actually amounted to anything more than fringe ideas based on poor science, then maybe she would mention it. What has Schoch and Hancock actually added to it since the early 90s? Maybe they're just happy selling books..
@@nisseheim4996 Have you read their books and know their research?
Mainstream archaeology, leaves many questions unanswered, the dating of the great Sphinx at 20th minute, Dynasty 4 (ca. 2625-2500 BCE) is very conservative at best. She has not taken into account the weathering caused by rain on the main body of the Sphinx nor has she addressed the fact the head does not contain the same weathering patterns. Then there is the matter the head is not proportionate to the body, suggesting that the head had been re-carved at some point.
At 26 minutes she talks about the Sphinx being in the centre of the two Pyramids to mark the centre of the raising sun on the horizon, at best this is just guess work, the image does not prove anything as the Sphinx is of centre to the two Pyramids. There are better explanations regarding the orientation of the Sphinx and these are easy to research.
There are many many more inaccuracies in her presentation which is why, we as a world will never move on and learn the truth about global history, as anything that does not fit the norm, is explained away with imaginary theories that are then given as fact.
Im really surprised at how much of the erroneous Dogma is still being repeated about the pyramids like them knowing who built them. Because they don't know who built those pyramids, they're just guessing. FYI the oldest Sphinx is the Sphinx and it's a lot older than y'all think. Robert schoch mic drop
It's not "our" Sphinx, it belongs to Egypt and was stolen by white imperialists. Make a cast and return it to its rightful owners.
Only civilized men can correct past mistakes. Peace
I'm sure she's a great scholar but it's a drag listening to her speak, get someone else to do it, like Brian Rose, he's entertaining. You need to keep people focused throughout the lecture, not have them falling asleep in the first 3 minutes. Would've loved to listen to this, but it's paintfully boring.
She is not even good for that I look for lectures to sleep to and her voice is too grating
SHe was very boring and pedantic. I was NOT expecting such a grocery list of facts. She doesn't touch on the disputed facts such as its age & the head. Many conjecture that the head is too small. If you look at all the sphinxes she showed, the heads are almost 30% of the statue. WHy is the Great Sphinx's head so tiny?
While there may or may not be questions to be asked about history the Sphinx of Giza, this was *_not_* the place: this is about the _Egyptian sphinx as a mythological construct_. And if you want to watch videos about historical conspiracy theories, there are plenty of other places to do so.
Michael Seebach haha any discussion that is not sanctioned by the mainstream priests, is a conspiracy. Hahaha. So the great pyramid of Giza is a tomb according to mainstream archaeology. Haha now that's a conspiracy!
Also women are boring speakers
She's not there to discuss and debate about that specific Sphinx, she's there to discuss the origins of the beast itself.
The Sphinx isnt a creature. Its a sculpture. She lost me in the first 5 seconds
That woman should try stand up comedy, I laughed so hard: " all meant to ward off evil" talking of hybrid creatures representations. Really, if you studied them and havent figured why they are there, shhhh. dont make up a story from YOUR paradigms.~~~ Snake 30 cubits long and "beard" 2 cubits= giant constrictor like anaconda. Dr Seuss is more historically correct in his stories... I'm off.
Sorry, you've wandered into the fact-based section of RUclips.
Watching a few episodes of Ancient Aliens should make you feel better.
and then that snake 45 feet long, and the beard 3 feet long tells the guy he is going to make himself know himself? I wonder if that is biblically.
Please stop lying to the public. Common sense tells us that the Sphinx is way older than 4,500 years. Look at the erosion surrounding it. Egypt was once a vast jungle with yearly monsoons similar to India. Try to think for yourself and not just repeat what you have "studied" or heard. This is sometimes 'the curse of being a doctor', they are so woven into their specialized study that some, not all, are unable to think for themselves. Bless.
If the sphinx had been built in a jungle environment which experienced annual monsoons it would have worn away long ago -- quite obviously
Don't be naïve Jerry., think about what you said very carefully, ..."quite obviously", you neglected to think it through., ...do you see the flaw in your logic?,... does anyone else see the glaring "elephant" missing from the logic room here?
Can't listen to female lectures and sleep thumbs down boring English voice please
So you're thumbing down because *you* can't listen to inteligent women? Wouldn't that be your issue to work out? Thumbing down usually indicates that the fault is the uploaders', not the complainants'...
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