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The Sphinx Mystery: The Forgotten Origins of the Sanctuary of Anubis

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A book that verifies the existence of secret underground chambers beneath the Sphinx and demonstrates its origins as the Egyptian god of the dead, Anubis

• Includes an anthology of eyewitness accounts from early travelers who explored the name of the game chambers before they were sealed in 1926

• Reveals that the Sphinx was once firstly carved as a monumental crouching Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god of the necropolis

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.

In The Sphinx Mystery, Robert Temple addresses the many mysteries of the Sphinx. He presents eyewitness accounts, published over a period of 281 years, of people that saw the name of the game chambers and even went inside them before they were sealed in 1926–accounts that had been forgotten until the writer rediscovered them. He also describes his own exploration of a tunnel at the rear of the Sphinx, perhaps used for obtaining sacred divinatory dreams.

Robert Temple reveals that the Sphinx was once firstly a monumental Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god, and that its face is that of a Middle Kingdom Pharaoh, Amenemhet II, which was once a later re-carving. In addition, he provides photographic evidence of ancient sluice gate traces to demonstrate that, all the way through the Old Kingdom, the Sphinx as Anubis sat surrounded by a moat filled with water–known as Jackal Lake in the ancient Pyramid Texts–where religious ceremonies were held. He also provides evidence that the exact size and position of the Sphinx were geometrically made up our minds when it comes to the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren and that it was once a part of a pharaonic resurrection cult.

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