The Sphinx and the Lotus
Author: Bernadette M. Sigler
Publisher: Hudson River Museum
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780943651217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernadette M. Sigler
Publisher: Hudson River Museum
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780943651217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Henry Goodyear
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Josef Wegner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1934536768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prelude to the sphinx -- The discovery of the sphinx -- The sphinx's journey to America -- The sphinx in Philadelphia -- After the sphinx -- Ancient Memphis: the city of the sphinx -- The world of Egyptian sphinxes -- Getting to know the sphinx
Author: Eleanor Dobson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1526141906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction and popular culture to the highbrow. The book illuminates unknown sources of historical significance – including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy – revising current understandings of the works of canonical writers and grounding its analysis firmly in a contemporary context. The contributors demonstrate the extensive range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria’s reign. At the same time, they use ancient Egypt to interrogate ‘selfhood’ and ‘otherness’, notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.
Author: Beatrice Teissier
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783525538920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Temple
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-01-20
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1594778841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 secret chambers before they were sealed in 1926 • Reveals that the Sphinx was originally 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 who saw the secret chambers and even went inside them before they were sealed in 1926--accounts that had been forgotten until the author 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 originally a monumental Anubis, the Egyptian jackal god, and that its face is that of a Middle Kingdom Pharaoh, Amenemhet II, which was a later re-carving. In addition, he provides photographic evidence of ancient sluice gate traces to demonstrate that, during the Old Kingdom, the Sphinx as Anubis sat surrounded by a moat filled with water--called 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 determined in relation to the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren and that it was part of a pharaonic resurrection cult.