rosion on the western side. I feel this means that the construction of the Sphinx pre-dates Khufu’s quarrying, and subsequent pyramid.I do, however, feel that the fourth dynasty played a partial hand in the present appearance of the Sphinx. Khufu’s successor Djedfe, was the first Pharaoh to incorporate the name ‘Re’ into royal title. Djedfe taught that pharaohs were living examples of gods, particularly ‘Re’, the sun god. This teaching is maintained throughout all of the following dynasties. Certainly by the time Khafre, the dogma of the Pharaoh as the earthly manifestation of the sun god had developed further. To fortify his correlation with ‘Re’, he commissioned masons and sculptors transform the lion head to that of his own likeness. This theory has given the credit of the Sphinx to Khafre, and certainly explains why the head is proportionally much smaller in relation to the body and significantly more preserved. Egyptologist refute that the head was re-carved by Khafre, but concede that the head was re-sculpted at some point in its existence to resemble a Pharaoh. One such Egyptologist is Ahmed Fayed who believes that the well-known Tutankhamen ordered the facelift. If the builders where not ancient Egyptians, than who built it, and what was its purpose. A universal tongue that transcends all cultural and linguistics boundaries is the stars, or astronomy and astrology. The procession of the equinox tells us that the cosmos, in relation to us, constantly changes in a grand cycle of 26,000 years. Why did these mysterious builders carve a lion in the terrain facing east? Astrologers have noted that the age of Leo began at 10,500 BC, and astronomers have calculated that a coincidental celestial event would also happen that year. At dawn before sunrise on the day of the spring (vernal) equinox, the age of Leo would be ushered in by the celestial lion resting due east just abo...
