Sphinx

Sphinx

  

Sphinx

Is one of the landmarks of the ancient Egyptian civilization, specifically the old state
The opinions differed as represented by this statue

The old opinion that he represents Pharaoh Khafre combines the power and the wisdom of rights Assad

 
The fact that the statue was carved during the reign of Khafre, but it represents the sun god

 Sphinx 

The proof of this temple, which faces the statue where it was taking place where religious rituals - Hur or AGT

 
This belief has been firmly in the minds of Egyptians throughout their history, where they saw a statue of lah - Hur or AGT - and Kano worship him and live his paintings

 Sphinx 

Among the most famous of these paintings those of King Thutmose IV of the eighteenth dynasty, known dream panel

 
As for the name of the Sphinx and linguistic derivation, it seems that native because of the modern state where people descended from the Canaanites to the Giza area and saw the statue, which represents the god Hur, and they associate with God have a

 
Horona - which in turn character - Horne - then this name to the letter -
Hall - where the base substitution between distraction and ha in Arabic

Sphinx 

The word Abu seems it is a distortion of the ancient Egyptian word Bo, which means a place in this case becomes Maan name, place of God Hur, the ancient Greeks to reproduce their feminine version of that object

 
She also appeared creatures comparable ideas in several other civilizations, including Southeast Asia as sphinx occupied a place in the European decorative art from the Renaissance

  

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