Sphinx Mystery, The Forgotten Origins of the Sanctuary of Anubis

Shrouded in mystery for centuries, the Sphinx of Giza has frustrated many who have attempted to discover its original purpose. Accounts exist of the Sphinx as an oracle, as a king s burial chamber and as a temple for initiation into the Hermetic Mysteries. Egyptologists have argued for decades about whether there are secret chambers underneath the Sphinx, why the head-to-body ratio is out of proportion and whose face adorns it. Robert & Olivia present eyewitness accounts, published over a period of 281 years, of people who saw the secret chambers and even went inside them before they were sealed in 1926 - accounts that had been forgotten until Robert rediscovered them. He also provides evidence that the exact size and position of the Sphinx were geometrically determined in relation to the Giza pyramids and that it was part of a pharaonic resurrection cult. The theory concludes that the Sphinx was originally carved as a monumental crouching Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god of the necropolis.

Robert Temple is visiting professor of the history and philosophy of science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and member of the Egypt Exploration Society, Royal Historical Society, Institute of Classical Studies, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. He is the author of 12 books, including The Sirius Mystery, Oracles of the Dead, The Genius of China and Egyptian Dawn.

Filmed at Megalithomania in May 2009 in Glastonbury. Copyright Megalithomania/Robert Temple 2009. All Rights Reserved.
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