One thing I love about this channel is how you are completely comfortable with changing your hypothesis completely in the face of new evidence. More researchers need to be like this.
Exactly. You got it. Confirm the connection by searching Egyptian foundation stories. When you read about the falcon with serpent on the holy tree indicating where to build a city is exactly the omen used to lead the people to Tenochtitlan. Then you learn about Enoch and down the rabbit hole you go.
For the falcon Sphinx to be reasonable requires an explanation for why a later pharaoh would commit the blasphemy of eliminating the head of a god just to substitute his own. You would think that by the time a pharaoh finally appeared with that much nerve, it would have been too late in Egyptian history for any king to declare himself a god, which it seems he would have to do in order to justify erasing the idol of an embraced historical god. The limestone of the head of the Spinx is the hardest of the three layers, so it's not very likely that an older original falcon head would have become so eroded that it was ripe for reconfiguration. So, if one goes with the theory of an original falcon head, then in what era or by which pharaoh was it sculptured into a human head? That's a rather huge question just left hanging out there.
Matt- in your previous vids you showed that you discovered an early depiction of the Sphinx with a chain through its nose as a symbol of subjugation. I think that’s how the nose really got broken off the sphinx. They tried to put a carving or an actual chain on the nose to represent this subjugation as depicted on the rock carving that depicts in miniature and it broke off. Love your channel! Further, originally, given its position between the pyramids, the “head” of the Sphinx could have just been a giant ball to represent the sun sitting in between the pyramids, after generations it weathered and was carved to a head.
You regularly do first class primary research through meta analytical means. This requires a strong mental control during an endogenously induced dissociative state. I am thoroughly impressed by you, and your work!
Internal mental visualization is dissociative. Just at the threshold of dissociation for some. But others (like myself) use it for problem solving tasks.
@@garbleduser That makes sense. I wasn't sure if you were using that term in the psycho-analytic sense. Though I'd argue that there's a systemic methodology used for any worthwhile analytic method which doesn't necessitate such dissociation, but the ability to detach can be a worthwhile tool. Incidentally, I use that form of dissociation for problem solving as well. People think I'm asleep when I do it.
I had just gotten used to the idea that it was not a man. It was either a lion or Anubis and now this? Well, I love it. Bring it on why don’t you. Keep up the good work.
Okay, the savages find an eroded rock in the desert the same shape as the thorax of large prone lying African mammal. Was there first thought a falcons head?? That actually becomes a duck. So if all they found was a head above the sand wouldn't it be natural to dig it all out and have a proper look? Easily done, even if this was a Neolithic civil engineering project to gain control of the tribe. I have been a builder all my life, we always dig down to see if underneath is any good and load bearing. Its still very good stuff Matt and thank you.
Awesome💥👊Great to hear someone refer to the hugely underestimated Selim Hassan,who grudgingly wrote in 1949 (paraphrased) that though credit appears to go to Khafre for erecting the monument, there is not one single contemporary inscription that connects The Sphinx to Khafre, so we should treat the "evidence " as circumstantial until such time as a lucky turn of the spade,might revel a definite reference to the erection of The Sphinx - we're still waiting. It was Auguste Mariette - founder of the Egyptian Museum ,who unearthed ,in 1857,the "Inventory Stele" (estimated date 678 - 535 BCE) which tells how Khafre came upon the monument ALREADY buried in the sand. Gaston Maspero (2nd director of the Cairo Museum) surveyed the Sphinx in 1886,it was he who concluded the "Dream Stele" showed a cartouche of Khafre in line 13 ,indicating he was responsible for for the excavation & therefore the monument must predate both Khafre and his predecessors. Wallis Budge writing in 1914,concured; dating it the 'Archaic period'(@2686BCE). Maspero believed - at a time that the monument could be CLEARLY seen without ANY of the now "plastic" restoration, that The Sphinx was "the most ancient monument in Egypt"(direct quote,from a man who surveyed it in 1886 in all its weathered glory). Regardless of who it represents in its current form ,.ALL the arguments and semantics are always focused on the identity of the FACE/HEAD - the assumption being it was an ancient lion or jackel OR had been built from scratch by who ever it represented originally. Your hard work and fresh perspective regarding the "body" and the original head is a breath of fresh air AS WELL AS HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE . Colin Reader,is adamant that proportions are all wrong and as the head ,which has always stood above the sand is too un-erodeded it had to have been recarved. He is also adamant it was a lion,based on the "evidence" of representations of lions,in particular a very early carving of a female lion with a pharaoh name under it, he also points to the oldest sphinx ,now in the Cairo Museum, which clearly shows a lions head has been recarved to show a female head. If ALL the theories are simply based upon circumstantial evidence,both pictorially representative and from other statues,then your theory stands up well,kudos👏👏👏👏🌟👊👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍REALLY ENJOYING THIS SERIES,THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK. Very best wishes to you and yours👋🌟✌
@@frosty6960 I'm sorry,I did try and was unable to do so; I went to the "about" page and have sent it to Ancient Architects Channel. Wishing you a GREAT weekend & a Very Happy Easter (if you celebrate),best wishes👋🌟✌
Promising better worship, some ancients, when waging war, invited their enemy's gods to defect. I believe the Romans called this 'evocatio'. Egyptians might have had the same habit? Great video.
The egyptians built everything in proportion but the head of the sphinxs human head is totally out of proportion to the rest of its body. Seems to of been carved at a later date to look like a humans head which would make total sense. Hmm very intresting
I feel like there’s an episode of Duck Tales where they go to Egypt and the Sphinx has, of course, a duck’s face. Even if I am imagining it, it’s all I could think about the whole time.
I do like to see your research, but the rushed narrative is killing it for me. I can't keep up with it so there's no use for me to try and see this. Maybe, in future, you'll have a web page with text. I'll be gladly there.
@@AncientArchitects I'm keeping my subs. for now since the web page should be announced here, when running. English is not my first language, but this is the first time I have had it so hard to keep up, that I feel the need to unsubscribe for that reason.
Is there any way that you can add low volume background music/sound. For some reason between the pauses in your narrative cause my phone, no matter how I listen to it, to cut off the first syllable/word after each pause. Would be a small improvement to help make you videos more viewable for me. I love the videos as I am fascinated by ancient civilizations and keep up the good work.
Matt I am so glad i found your channel a while back i have learned so much from your videos and have made some of my own conclusion as well based on your findings that are subject of reason and facts i always can't hardly wait for your next video,,,outstanding
@1:00 That statue has a Sphinx like figure carved into side of the base, but it isn't close enough for me to see what sort of head that one has on it. Might be something to check closer if anyone has a full sized version of that image or others of the same statue with a better view of those carvings.
Perhaps the symbol of the triangle with the shining eye of god is an ancient reference to the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx (the Eye symbolizing the Eye of Horus in the Horizon / Hauron / Huramekuth)
It looks like the dynastic Egyptians inherited all those beautiful granitic sculptures and just carved hieroglyphs on them. It's two completely different levels of technology
7:00 You describe a winged disk, and how the upward curve of the wings is evidence the carving was not of Egyptian origin. Is there a possibility of a video specifically teaching/describing some distinct differences in other contemporary art in the region? (If hieroglyphs are a form of language, would these artistic differences be seen as accents? Like pronouncing "Jesus" in English or "Hay-soos" in Spanish?)
amazing video, by the way, the Hauron is related by any means to Horon the brother of Moses? Also another point, Hor-em in arabic means ancient, old and also pyramid, spelled Haram and Horam. so When we say Haram X, we are referring to the name of this Haram or to whom it goes back to. Also, Hauron also can mean in arabic the Hour-Ein and Hour-on, the philosophical meaning of حور عين - Hor Ayn that exists In Janna / heaven. Finally, the work Ahket could mean in arabic Talked or Sister of, depends on the spelling of that word in arabic / hebrew. this can also be played around in arabic, if the word EM took separately, since EM = Mother.
This is a fascinating set of perspectives Matt great work 👏👏 There’s a lot to unpack here. One question is, how many other Neolithic structures were immersed in water? One example that comes to mind is Thornborough Henge. I wonder what the significance of this is, if any? From memory Alexander Thom surveyed many such sites and it would be great if you might be able to do a feature on his work too.
Flawless my friend, I think you nailed it!! My only problem with this is I have no one to nerd out with, regarding your content!! Your doing such a great job, if there's a patreon, or a live stream I can donate to. I will for sure! Always like, I'm sub'd with that bell on loud!! And I'll do my best to comment😉
Again your research is completely in line with my own. Thank you for publishing this. It feels good to know that others are seeking deeply and sharing their data and conclusions. It's challenging to think of the rock we see as the Sphinx as being anything other than a lion. The evidence that it might have been something else is very strong. The evidence that it may have been many things is possible. I've never been able to see it as a falcon until today with the knowledge that the body and rump appeared very differently in antiquity.
I am trying to learn hieroglyphs so I can try to interpret what is said instead of believing what someone else has interpreted it as and it may be bias into thinking that one word means another like you are saying with the similar names of the falcon gods. It is such a small discrepancy but changes things a ton depending on which it is, how much is written down yet just not translated correctly then? Could change everything, it could all be in front of our faces ya know??
Sphinx was associated with Horus not because it originally had falcon head, but because they have the same meaning. You noticed yourself in the video that Egyptians called Sphhinx "Horus in the Horizon"(because he "stares" at the horizon). There were a lot of Sphinx statues with falcon heads. To better understand it, compare the Eye of Horus(Wadjet) with gaze of Sphinx, they are the same thing, a quiet but wide awake stare into seemingly nowhere. This is an artistic portrayal of what we now call meditation, which is the base of human development, an ultimately important thing.
You are quite incredible the amount of research is amazing. How thought provoking, I can very easily agree with the possibility of a falcon as they are very prevalent throughout Egypt. Love the work thank you again.
Your research is as impeccable as always. You state a very good case brother, one that would indeed explain a lot. The symbolism throughout history of the falcon, perhaps often mistaken for an eagle, is quite significant indeed...
The hawk arrived in a craft 11500bc after the destruction of Atlantis, to get things going again in Egypt, he was not a hawk but dressed as one, so the humans could understand. He was then made into a god as he lived for a very long time! Just maybe...
A theory: if the Sphinx started out as a sacred outcropping, it might have naturally looked like an animal. As erosion changed the face, various explanations of the prominence of this god over that was applied. (The erosion might be visible in a broad general view of how Horus' face is depicted in art over time. It seems the beak progressively shortens and moves up the face over time, in art and other statues.) Eventually, after a major erosion-caused break, the Pharoah restored the outcropping by carving the remains of the outcropping into a face. (Sorry if I am driving you crazy, commenting on all your old videos in profusion, but you do ask us to comment on them if we enjoy them, and I most certainly do. I like how you delve into the evidence at the fringes of archaeology without resorting to aliens or Atlantis. That is a rare and beautiful thing.)
In ancient times (12.000 + years ago) the eagle or falcon was a symbol of the "Great Spirit" (which is today still present in some cultures around the world - like native Americans).
Mmmm...I get it. I do. I get it, and I even carefully remembered to leave my biases and preconceptions at the door. I'm trackin' with you, but with all due respect, it feels like a bit of a reach. A reach and a stretch. ..still, you're one of the best historians, and among one of the most impressive and inspired analytical thinkers on youtube. You're also my favorite amateur Egyptologist (for what it's worth). Snd hell, Maybe you're right! I sure don't know! I will say though, my gut tells me you about nailed-it a couple uploads-ago. It even made me real sad, but I thought, holy shit! He's right! It's a mish-mash patchwork from over several developments throughout the ages, though not as old as we had started to believe! It's a cleverly decorated statue/carving, thrown together on an interesting natural outcrop! (or ancient temple?)
*If* the east-facing statue is a precessional marker associated with a constellation of stars on the zodiac belt that appears behind the rising sun on an equinox, then it's plausible the statue has been recarved multiple times every 2000 years or so to represent whatever the locals though that constellation represented.
If the head was a falcon, then that "bump" on the chest of the Sphinx could be the protected pharaoh, just as depicted in those other statues. Millenia of erosion or deliberate destruction when the head was re-carved could have turned it into what is there now. Yes?
@@AncientArchitects Lets hope there will be more discoveries by the time you go there. I also saw people complain that they demanded guest to go into the tunnels and I though. I would rather want those greedy goverment to have use for the structures in tourism then let them crumble from vandalism and neglect.
Stewart Meetball Apkallu were ambassadors of wisdom in Ancient Sumer. They were the 7 sages giving advice to rulers, the tradition continued in Egypt (as the Apkallu were depicted with bird heads) where the falcon protected Pharaos.
I think originally it was a flooded keyhole tomb and enclosure similar to Japanese types. It's fate a progressive metamorphosis over time by each presiding culture of the moment. Its primary keyhole shape only exists now as a slight suggestion in its aerial topography.
I think it quite unlikely the head was originally anything other than a coincidence that looked like something. Then it got popular for whatever reason and eventually re-carved. People see all sorts of things in natural outcrops. So only one ever shaping to my mind.
@@AncientArchitects I taking about statue of Ramesses II as child protected by bird, but this bird "face" is curve in single rock, so why we should believe it was this way from beginning?
HORUS is the personification of the light that is the culmination of the GREAT WORK, aka the divine union . the light is represented as a lion a solar boat and the cross.
I JUST NOTICED THE NOSES ON THE STATUES they're supposedly Ramsey's don't match the nose bridge on his supposed mummy, The mummy has a hooked beak like nose not like the statues
Is it possible that instead of a falcon head, there was a falcon on the back of the Sphinx or some other mounted item on the back of the Sphinx that would have the same symbolic value to the Canaanites?
Some pharaohs had snakes on their heads, some had birds, Tutankhamun was the only pharaoh to have both. Why did he have both? What do snakes and birds represent to pharaohs?
@@AncientArchitects I know I was typing that towards the end, once I hit send, it popped up and I felt stupid. I'd like to know more about that statue, as it COULD be the only original depiction of the original sphinx.
@@AncientArchitects but isn't there two Sphinx's on the dream stila? So it most certainly had to be a sphinx body at some point and not JUST remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries, right?
Perhaps the head was redesigned in an effort by the 19th Dynasty in an effort to stamp out any aspect of Atenism while the paws were cut out by Thutmose when he originally dug out the Sphinx as part of the restoration process. Also, going off of your previous hypothesis that the Sphinx monument is predynastic, could the head not have been carved out multiple times? What you hypothesize to be the Sphinx on the Narmer palette is clearly of a different facial design than what is known today and what better way to show Horus conquering Lower Egypt than to replace what was there with their Horus himself, especially if there was an initial monument that the indigenous peoples worshipped?
Fascinating stuff. Did anyone else notice the phonetic similarity between Hauron and the Old Testament Aaron? Seems to me, Aaron from the Old Testament was never a real person but a canaanite deity which had to be covered up in the Thora.
A lot of early Sphinx were also carved with wings out spread behind them in a sitting position with a human face and a crown resembling a hawk beak. The hawk head lion body statue is a dead ringer for the Sphinx in Egypt. In Biblical text Abraham lived in Egypt for a while before settling in what we call Israel. When he married his wife/sister to the Pharaoh, the king became ill and cursed the Hebrew people to slavery if they ever returned. Their presence there could explain a lot. Much later Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and ended up being being the right hand of the pharaoh from his interpretation of dreams which saved the Egyptian people from a great famine. He gave credit to their One God. The Israelite people were also saved when they came to Egypt.They were invited to stay because of Joseph. If this Pharaoh was Tut’s father (whose reign was short lived) and everything he created was destroyed, the Hebrew people enslaved (the Bible is vague on how they went from guests to slaves) in would explain why both sides of the story were hidden. I know there was a migration of slaves from Egypt. I don’t know when though. If it’s around 400 years after the death of Tut, history would lineup.
Could have been the face of a pharaoh and a statue of a hawk on top of the statue there's a hole in top of the head of the Spanx where something could have been mounted , set down inside to represent for a horemakhet check it out.
No notifications on pc but ok on phone And now I have more questions then answers,I don't know what to think anymore,one thing is sure that sphinx enclosure is far older then the pyramids not nessessarily sphinx its self,to me the sphinx looks like resting dog connection to Sirius star always travel together with Orion belt(3 pyramids) and causeway of the second pyramid looks like water channel which leaked into sphynx enclosure,that's why is more water erosion on two sides and why do they point in different directions,the whole plateu is very simetrical and so on,thanks Just theorising
Would they carve a lioness though? I mean, was there more interest in a lioness than lion? Obviously a lion would require more stone unless they added it on, but what significance did a lioness have to them? The human head looks really crammed in there for sure, but with the headdress sticking out the sides, I'd say it was a lioness. A jackal head was too skinny and the tail isn't bushy, for starters. Egyptians didn't use forced perspective (making a sphinx's proportions smaller up top to appear taller than it is) so the head being small is just because they didn't have enough stone to work with. They've always seemed to get the proportions right on their statues.
Producing research links would be nice. Better than simply making claims and supposition. However, skeptical as I am about "information" on this channel this one's a bit interesting for sure.
Could the Pharaoh Horemheb have had a role in this change from falcon to lion? He came into the scene just after the controversial death of King Tut (despite being born a commoner), and was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He was very active in 'reshaping' the face of Egypt by destroying and overwriting Egyptian history, mostly in response the the 'Heretic' who ruled before him in the guise of 'resurrecting' the old ways. I remember when I first read about him years ago he seemed like a real c*nt and I wouldn't put it past him to do something as revolutionary as remodelling the Sphinx to his own liking.
Hello - No, it only had the original head, which is a semblance of the face of the Lord Mikaal (Archangel Michael) whose Temple lies under the Sphinx from the city of Ellhonia, Drunhia (the capital of Egypt in those remote times 3,5 million years ago).
Hello - Please consult The Winds of Truth Great Writings of the Truths of GOD revealed by the Lord Mikaal (Archangel Michael) at the Second Coming in 1941, available from the WOT Trust on their website. The main work as titled and the volume entitled The History of Ancient Hyipta and Egypt supply all the information required. Thank you. - RevDrDPhD/Ministry@@AncientArchitects
Hauron is generally depicted anthropomorphically, bearing arms, but sometimes as a falcon. it is unlikely that they commonly depicted him with a human body and decided to go with the alternate for one of the greatest monuments ever built. you say the body was 2 mangled in the 1800s to have been an animals body originally. you also keep saying that the sphinx was once underwater. if the sphinx was underwater the water would have had to run off in the 3-4 well documented shafts at the base of the sphinx. flowing water can eat anything. the sphinx body would be the mangled wreck u saw in 1800 photos. im not saying any of this is true or untrue just my opinion
One thing I love about this channel is how you are completely comfortable with changing your hypothesis completely in the face of new evidence. More researchers need to be like this.
That combination of man, cobra and falcon makes me think of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent.
Hmm 🤔
Exactly. You got it. Confirm the connection by searching Egyptian foundation stories. When you read about the falcon with serpent on the holy tree indicating where to build a city is exactly the omen used to lead the people to Tenochtitlan. Then you learn about Enoch and down the rabbit hole you go.
@@AncientArchitects please make a video on this
@@AncientArchitects You forgot to link the book?
Feathered serpents = Annanuki
For the falcon Sphinx to be reasonable requires an explanation for why a later pharaoh would commit the blasphemy of eliminating the head of a god just to substitute his own. You would think that by the time a pharaoh finally appeared with that much nerve, it would have been too late in Egyptian history for any king to declare himself a god, which it seems he would have to do in order to justify erasing the idol of an embraced historical god.
The limestone of the head of the Spinx is the hardest of the three layers, so it's not very likely that an older original falcon head would have become so eroded that it was ripe for reconfiguration. So, if one goes with the theory of an original falcon head, then in what era or by which pharaoh was it sculptured into a human head? That's a rather huge question just left hanging out there.
Who else here gets a warm smile when you hear the cheerful "Hello everybody and welcome to ancient architects"? :)
Chris I do. I wish I knew his website with his contact info. I’d let him know I am thankful for him being a gift to humanity.
Matt- in your previous vids you showed that you discovered an early depiction of the Sphinx with a chain through its nose as a symbol of subjugation. I think that’s how the nose really got broken off the sphinx. They tried to put a carving or an actual chain on the nose to represent this subjugation as depicted on the rock carving that depicts in miniature and it broke off. Love your channel! Further, originally, given its position between the pyramids, the “head” of the Sphinx could have just been a giant ball to represent the sun sitting in between the pyramids, after generations it weathered and was carved to a head.
I’ve since been told my interpretation of that image may be wrong but I’m doing some extra digging.
Is official, AA is my favorite channel on ALL of youtube!! Keep it up!
You regularly do first class primary research through meta analytical means. This requires a strong mental control during an endogenously induced dissociative state. I am thoroughly impressed by you, and your work!
Your English language is too advanced for me, but thanks! 👍
wait... why would meta analysis require a dissociative state?
Internal mental visualization is dissociative. Just at the threshold of dissociation for some. But others (like myself) use it for problem solving tasks.
@@garbleduser That makes sense. I wasn't sure if you were using that term in the psycho-analytic sense. Though I'd argue that there's a systemic methodology used for any worthwhile analytic method which doesn't necessitate such dissociation, but the ability to detach can be a worthwhile tool. Incidentally, I use that form of dissociation for problem solving as well. People think I'm asleep when I do it.
@@AncientArchitects He say you have strong head, look hard at stuff.
I had just gotten used to the idea that it was not a man. It was either a lion or Anubis and now this? Well, I love it. Bring it on why don’t you. Keep up the good work.
It was anubis 100%
Okay, the savages find an eroded rock in the desert the same shape as the thorax of large prone lying African mammal. Was there first thought a falcons head?? That actually becomes a duck.
So if all they found was a head above the sand wouldn't it be natural to dig it all out and have a proper look?
Easily done, even if this was a Neolithic civil engineering project to gain control of the tribe.
I have been a builder all my life, we always dig down to see if underneath is any good and load bearing.
Its still very good stuff Matt and thank you.
Excellent work brother
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Awesome💥👊Great to hear someone refer to the hugely underestimated Selim Hassan,who grudgingly wrote in 1949 (paraphrased) that though credit appears to go to Khafre for erecting the monument, there is not one single contemporary inscription that connects The Sphinx to Khafre, so we should treat the "evidence " as circumstantial until such time as a lucky turn of the spade,might revel a definite reference to the erection of The Sphinx - we're still waiting. It was Auguste Mariette - founder of the Egyptian Museum ,who unearthed ,in 1857,the "Inventory Stele" (estimated date 678 - 535 BCE) which tells how Khafre came upon the monument ALREADY buried in the sand. Gaston Maspero (2nd director of the Cairo Museum) surveyed the Sphinx in 1886,it was he who concluded the "Dream Stele" showed a cartouche of Khafre in line 13 ,indicating he was responsible for for the excavation & therefore the monument must predate both Khafre and his predecessors. Wallis Budge writing in 1914,concured; dating it the 'Archaic period'(@2686BCE). Maspero believed - at a time that the monument could be CLEARLY seen without ANY of the now "plastic" restoration, that The Sphinx was "the most ancient monument in Egypt"(direct quote,from a man who surveyed it in 1886 in all its weathered glory). Regardless of who it represents in its current form ,.ALL the arguments and semantics are always focused on the identity of the FACE/HEAD - the assumption being it was an ancient lion or jackel OR had been built from scratch by who ever it represented originally. Your hard work and fresh perspective regarding the "body" and the original head is a breath of fresh air AS WELL AS HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE . Colin Reader,is adamant that proportions are all wrong and as the head ,which has always stood above the sand is too un-erodeded it had to have been recarved. He is also adamant it was a lion,based on the "evidence" of representations of lions,in particular a very early carving of a female lion with a pharaoh name under it, he also points to the oldest sphinx ,now in the Cairo Museum, which clearly shows a lions head has been recarved to show a female head. If ALL the theories are simply based upon circumstantial evidence,both pictorially representative and from other statues,then your theory stands up well,kudos👏👏👏👏🌟👊👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍REALLY ENJOYING THIS SERIES,THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK. Very best wishes to you and yours👋🌟✌
@@frosty6960 I'm sorry,I did try and was unable to do so; I went to the "about" page and have sent it to Ancient Architects Channel. Wishing you a GREAT weekend & a Very Happy Easter (if you celebrate),best wishes👋🌟✌
Amazing research excelente job !!!
Thanks Captain!
Great video 👌🏽👍
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Promising better worship, some ancients, when waging war, invited their enemy's gods to defect. I believe the Romans called this 'evocatio'. Egyptians might have had the same habit? Great video.
The egyptians built everything in proportion but the head of the sphinxs human head is totally out of proportion to the rest of its body. Seems to of been carved at a later date to look like a humans head which would make total sense. Hmm very intresting
I feel like there’s an episode of Duck Tales where they go to Egypt and the Sphinx has, of course, a duck’s face. Even if I am imagining it, it’s all I could think about the whole time.
I think it's more likely a kangaroo
That would be a shock
Harry Wolf that was nice 😂
Don't be ridiculous man... it's clearly an ostrich
Falcon head, lion body, it was a griffin.
That beast had wings . No it is and was a big bad CAT !!!!!!
Your channel.....I love it!
Thank you
I do like to see your research, but the rushed narrative is killing it for me. I can't keep up with it so there's no use for me to try and see this. Maybe, in future, you'll have a web page with text. I'll be gladly there.
That’s the plan - and I do understand.
I’m keeping all my scripts and will merge them all into one for a future website
@@AncientArchitects I'm keeping my subs. for now since the web page should be announced here, when running. English is not my first language, but this is the first time I have had it so hard to keep up, that I feel the need to unsubscribe for that reason.
Awesome work Matt 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼♥️⛰♥️thanx so much
Thanks Lynn
Oh I love this stuff !thank you Success,happiness ,and love peace and brotherhood from Nova Scotia Canada
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Not trolling I'm a big fan of your channel just got stupid since of humor ,keep up the good work mate
Super research! Well done!
Great work as always Matt! Thank you
I love this content!
#metoo
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Is there any way that you can add low volume background music/sound. For some reason between the pauses in your narrative cause my phone, no matter how I listen to it, to cut off the first syllable/word after each pause. Would be a small improvement to help make you videos more viewable for me. I love the videos as I am fascinated by ancient civilizations and keep up the good work.
Matt I am so glad i found your channel a while back i have learned so much from your videos and have made some of my own conclusion as well based on your findings
that are subject of reason and facts i always can't hardly wait for your next video,,,outstanding
Would to love to work with you. Your research is the best ever
This channel is so addicting ❣️..... excellent work Matt👍✌️
@1:00 That statue has a Sphinx like figure carved into side of the base, but it isn't close enough for me to see what sort of head that one has on it. Might be something to check closer if anyone has a full sized version of that image or others of the same statue with a better view of those carvings.
Great video, Matt! Very interesting ideas! Love your humility, too! Keep it up!
I love all these Sphinx videos, even tho you keep changing your mind about what the Sphinx originally was.
So much to take in. I’ll need to watch it again? I wonder how you’d interpret the Narmer pallete with this new view of things?
Perhaps the symbol of the triangle with the shining eye of god is an ancient reference to the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx (the Eye symbolizing the Eye of Horus in the Horizon / Hauron / Huramekuth)
This story continues to unfold in such amazing ways!
I wish that as much critical thinking and logical association went into all the relics in Giza. Great work!!
It looks like the dynastic Egyptians inherited all those beautiful granitic sculptures and just carved hieroglyphs on them. It's two completely different levels of technology
Yep, maybe!
Can you just come to a conclusion please!!! My head is spinning from all these theories
7:00 You describe a winged disk, and how the upward curve of the wings is evidence the carving was not of Egyptian origin. Is there a possibility of a video specifically teaching/describing some distinct differences in other contemporary art in the region?
(If hieroglyphs are a form of language, would these artistic differences be seen as accents? Like pronouncing "Jesus" in English or "Hay-soos" in Spanish?)
amazing video,
by the way, the Hauron is related by any means to Horon the brother of Moses? Also another point, Hor-em in arabic means ancient, old and also pyramid, spelled Haram and Horam. so When we say Haram X, we are referring to the name of this Haram or to whom it goes back to. Also, Hauron also can mean in arabic the Hour-Ein and Hour-on, the philosophical meaning of حور عين - Hor Ayn that exists In Janna / heaven. Finally, the work Ahket could mean in arabic Talked or Sister of, depends on the spelling of that word in arabic / hebrew.
this can also be played around in arabic, if the word EM took separately, since EM = Mother.
This is a fascinating set of perspectives Matt great work 👏👏 There’s a lot to unpack here. One question is, how many other Neolithic structures were immersed in water? One example that comes to mind is Thornborough Henge. I wonder what the significance of this is, if any? From memory Alexander Thom surveyed many such sites and it would be great if you might be able to do a feature on his work too.
Flawless my friend, I think you nailed it!! My only problem with this is I have no one to nerd out with, regarding your content!! Your doing such a great job, if there's a patreon, or a live stream I can donate to. I will for sure! Always like, I'm sub'd with that bell on loud!! And I'll do my best to comment😉
nice info
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Barry Fitzgerald has a new site called Ancient Secret Discoveries I recommend it@@AncientArchitects
Again your research is completely in line with my own. Thank you for publishing this. It feels good to know that others are seeking deeply and sharing their data and conclusions. It's challenging to think of the rock we see as the Sphinx as being anything other than a lion. The evidence that it might have been something else is very strong. The evidence that it may have been many things is possible. I've never been able to see it as a falcon until today with the knowledge that the body and rump appeared very differently in antiquity.
After this last hypothesis, I thought that the sphinx was originally a griffin. Griffins were quite a popular motif in the old art.
I am trying to learn hieroglyphs so I can try to interpret what is said instead of believing what someone else has interpreted it as and it may be bias into thinking that one word means another like you are saying with the similar names of the falcon gods. It is such a small discrepancy but changes things a ton depending on which it is, how much is written down yet just not translated correctly then? Could change everything, it could all be in front of our faces ya know??
Sphinx was associated with Horus not because it originally had falcon head, but because they have the same meaning. You noticed yourself in the video that Egyptians called Sphhinx "Horus in the Horizon"(because he "stares" at the horizon). There were a lot of Sphinx statues with falcon heads. To better understand it, compare the Eye of Horus(Wadjet) with gaze of Sphinx, they are the same thing, a quiet but wide awake stare into seemingly nowhere. This is an artistic portrayal of what we now call meditation, which is the base of human development, an ultimately important thing.
You are quite incredible the amount of research is amazing. How thought provoking, I can very easily agree with the possibility of a falcon as they are very prevalent throughout Egypt. Love the work thank you again.
FANTASTIC WORK 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Your research is as impeccable as always. You state a very good case brother, one that would indeed explain a lot. The symbolism throughout history of the falcon, perhaps often mistaken for an eagle, is quite significant indeed...
great research i love it your best investigation your buttiful explanations on the great pyramid of khufu
Was the Sphinx a jackalope?
The hawk arrived in a craft 11500bc after the destruction of Atlantis, to get things going again in Egypt, he was not a hawk but dressed as one, so the humans could understand. He was then made into a god as he lived for a very long time!
Just maybe...
A theory: if the Sphinx started out as a sacred outcropping, it might have naturally looked like an animal. As erosion changed the face, various explanations of the prominence of this god over that was applied. (The erosion might be visible in a broad general view of how Horus' face is depicted in art over time. It seems the beak progressively shortens and moves up the face over time, in art and other statues.) Eventually, after a major erosion-caused break, the Pharoah restored the outcropping by carving the remains of the outcropping into a face.
(Sorry if I am driving you crazy, commenting on all your old videos in profusion, but you do ask us to comment on them if we enjoy them, and I most certainly do. I like how you delve into the evidence at the fringes of archaeology without resorting to aliens or Atlantis. That is a rare and beautiful thing.)
I had a dream I met this dude when I was younger.
He gave me a red drink that made me dream three different dreams.
I can’t remember anything else.
In ancient times (12.000 + years ago) the eagle or falcon was a symbol of the "Great Spirit" (which is today still present in some cultures around the world - like native Americans).
Truly a lord of the sky realm with the power to bring death from above.
Mmmm...I get it.
I do.
I get it, and I even carefully remembered to leave my biases and preconceptions at the door.
I'm trackin' with you, but with all due respect, it feels like a bit of a reach.
A reach and a stretch.
..still, you're one of the best historians, and among one of the most impressive and inspired analytical thinkers on youtube.
You're also my favorite amateur Egyptologist (for what it's worth).
Snd hell, Maybe you're right! I sure don't know!
I will say though, my gut tells me you about nailed-it a couple uploads-ago.
It even made me real sad, but I thought, holy shit! He's right! It's a mish-mash patchwork from over several developments throughout the ages, though not as old as we had started to believe! It's a cleverly decorated statue/carving, thrown together on an interesting natural outcrop! (or ancient temple?)
my conclusion: noone knows what the hell is and was going on lol
*If* the east-facing statue is a precessional marker associated with a constellation of stars on the zodiac belt that appears behind the rising sun on an equinox, then it's plausible the statue has been recarved multiple times every 2000 years or so to represent whatever the locals though that constellation represented.
being intermittently dampened by nile flooding surely the sphinx was not Sokar but the Sokee
Supasokar
Very compelling. The shape of the Sphinx head does have the correct shape to be made by removing rock from a falcon head.
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@@AncientArchitects Look at Hieracosphinx
Mind blowing to think about. But you could be on to something here
Cheers
If the head was a falcon, then that "bump" on the chest of the Sphinx could be the protected pharaoh, just as depicted in those other statues. Millenia of erosion or deliberate destruction when the head was re-carved could have turned it into what is there now. Yes?
I saw you at Brien livestream of Giza
I know, me too. I hope to join him next Year
@@AncientArchitects Lets hope there will be more discoveries by the time you go there.
I also saw people complain that they demanded guest to go into the tunnels and I though.
I would rather want those greedy goverment to have use for the structures in tourism then let them crumble from vandalism and neglect.
it was Anubis. The whole area around sphinx was called lake of anubis in ancient times......that locks it in. Was a dog.
Woof,woof! Jackal Lake!!
@@AncientHistoryCriticisms ....I only read a couple of the comments these days.
Isn't there a cavity on the top of the sphinx's head? It could have been to seat a crown, but why not a crown with a protective hawk god?
A monument in honor of the Apkallu.
??.. I've never heard of that name?
Stewart Meetball Apkallu were ambassadors of wisdom in Ancient Sumer. They were the 7 sages giving advice to rulers, the tradition continued in Egypt (as the Apkallu were depicted with bird heads) where the falcon protected Pharaos.
Some scholars now believe the Falcon was here thousands of years before the end of the really tiny ice age brought Captain America...
Let's wait and see what he thinks next week !
At 1104 the falcon in the film appears to have an inlay for its face. Is that the case? I wonder why?
I think originally it was a flooded keyhole tomb and enclosure similar to Japanese types. It's fate a progressive metamorphosis over time by each presiding culture of the moment. Its primary keyhole shape only exists now as a slight suggestion in its aerial topography.
The sphinx was originally a Staffordshire bull terrier called Robbie
I think it quite unlikely the head was originally anything other than a coincidence that looked like something. Then it got popular for whatever reason and eventually re-carved. People see all sorts of things in natural outcrops. So only one ever shaping to my mind.
The dweller in the horizon is exactly correct. Jupiter/Horus is the dweller in the horizon. The Suns horizon. The builders of the sphinx knew that....
This bird "face" is original? Because it looks like added later (do not think they make this important statue with two stones)
The head is a different unit of natural harder limestone, not an artificial addition
@@AncientArchitects I taking about statue of Ramesses II as child protected by bird, but this bird "face" is curve in single rock, so why we should believe it was this way from beginning?
Statue of haruon with the Pharoah looks to have an interchangeable face piece. Looks like it can slide out to me
HORUS is the personification of the light that is the culmination of the GREAT WORK, aka the divine union . the light is represented as a lion a solar boat and the cross.
I JUST NOTICED THE NOSES ON THE STATUES they're supposedly Ramsey's don't match the nose bridge on his supposed mummy, The mummy has a hooked beak like nose not like the statues
Is it possible that instead of a falcon head, there was a falcon on the back of the Sphinx or some other mounted item on the back of the Sphinx that would have the same symbolic value to the Canaanites?
Some pharaohs had snakes on their heads, some had birds, Tutankhamun was the only pharaoh to have both. Why did he have both? What do snakes and birds represent to pharaohs?
amazing
Cheers
Have any artifacts or inscriptions ever been found with a falcon head and lion body? None to my knowledge?
I show one in the video.
Ryan Davis griffin
Also, I say that I don’t think the body was originally a lion, just a mound of rock with a falcon head carved on top. All explained in the video.
@@AncientArchitects I know I was typing that towards the end, once I hit send, it popped up and I felt stupid. I'd like to know more about that statue, as it COULD be the only original depiction of the original sphinx.
@@AncientArchitects but isn't there two Sphinx's on the dream stila? So it most certainly had to be a sphinx body at some point and not JUST remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries, right?
Perhaps the head was redesigned in an effort by the 19th Dynasty in an effort to stamp out any aspect of Atenism while the paws were cut out by Thutmose when he originally dug out the Sphinx as part of the restoration process. Also, going off of your previous hypothesis that the Sphinx monument is predynastic, could the head not have been carved out multiple times? What you hypothesize to be the Sphinx on the Narmer palette is clearly of a different facial design than what is known today and what better way to show Horus conquering Lower Egypt than to replace what was there with their Horus himself, especially if there was an initial monument that the indigenous peoples worshipped?
Fascinating stuff. Did anyone else notice the phonetic similarity between Hauron and the Old Testament Aaron? Seems to me, Aaron from the Old Testament was never a real person but a canaanite deity which had to be covered up in the Thora.
A lot of early Sphinx were also carved with wings out spread behind them in a sitting position with a human face and a crown resembling a hawk beak. The hawk head lion body statue is a dead ringer for the Sphinx in Egypt. In Biblical text Abraham lived in Egypt for a while before settling in what we call Israel. When he married his wife/sister to the Pharaoh, the king became ill and cursed the Hebrew people to slavery if they ever returned. Their presence there could explain a lot. Much later Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and ended up being being the right hand of the pharaoh from his interpretation of dreams which saved the Egyptian people from a great famine. He gave credit to their One God. The Israelite people were also saved when they came to Egypt.They were invited to stay because of Joseph. If this Pharaoh was Tut’s father (whose reign was short lived) and everything he created was destroyed, the Hebrew people enslaved (the Bible is vague on how they went from guests to slaves) in would explain why both sides of the story were hidden. I know there was a migration of slaves from Egypt. I don’t know when though. If it’s around 400 years after the death of Tut, history would lineup.
Could have been the face of a pharaoh and a statue of a hawk on top of the statue there's a hole in top of the head of the Spanx where something could have been mounted , set down inside to represent for a horemakhet check it out.
you said that because the wings were upturned they were not egyptian can you please explain that?
No notifications on pc but ok on phone And now I have more questions then answers,I don't know what to think anymore,one thing is sure that sphinx enclosure is far older then the pyramids not nessessarily sphinx its self,to me the sphinx looks like resting dog connection to Sirius star always travel together with Orion belt(3 pyramids) and causeway of the second pyramid looks like water channel which leaked into sphynx enclosure,that's why is more water erosion on two sides and why do they point in different directions,the whole plateu is very simetrical and so on,thanks Just theorising
the compound where sphynx is located is called lake of anubis, it used to be full of water around the dog in ancient times.....
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Would they carve a lioness though? I mean, was there more interest in a lioness than lion? Obviously a lion would require more stone unless they added it on, but what significance did a lioness have to them? The human head looks really crammed in there for sure, but with the headdress sticking out the sides, I'd say it was a lioness. A jackal head was too skinny and the tail isn't bushy, for starters. Egyptians didn't use forced perspective (making a sphinx's proportions smaller up top to appear taller than it is) so the head being small is just because they didn't have enough stone to work with. They've always seemed to get the proportions right on their statues.
It’s not in his mouth he’s going hmmmmmmmmmm!
lol Agreed....
Lol - maybe 😂
Haha! Very good.
HI!
Hello. You doing ok?
@@stewartmeetball3417 Very well. :)
Hello.
Producing research links would be nice. Better than simply making claims and supposition. However, skeptical as I am about "information" on this channel this one's a bit interesting for sure.
Sorry - was meant to put links to Selim Hassan’s work in the description. I’ll add them within the hour - check back!
Could the Pharaoh Horemheb have had a role in this change from falcon to lion? He came into the scene just after the controversial death of King Tut (despite being born a commoner), and was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He was very active in 'reshaping' the face of Egypt by destroying and overwriting Egyptian history, mostly in response the the 'Heretic' who ruled before him in the guise of 'resurrecting' the old ways. I remember when I first read about him years ago he seemed like a real c*nt and I wouldn't put it past him to do something as revolutionary as remodelling the Sphinx to his own liking.
Hello - No, it only had the original head, which is a semblance of the face of the Lord Mikaal (Archangel Michael) whose Temple lies under the Sphinx from the city of Ellhonia, Drunhia (the capital of Egypt in those remote times 3,5 million years ago).
Nah. Sorry, doesn’t work. Cheers.
Hello - Please consult The Winds of Truth Great Writings of the Truths of GOD revealed by the Lord Mikaal (Archangel Michael) at the Second Coming in 1941, available from the WOT Trust on their website. The main work as titled and the volume entitled The History of Ancient Hyipta and Egypt supply all the information required. Thank you. - RevDrDPhD/Ministry@@AncientArchitects
Why wouldn't a culture hand down stories of the history behind these wonders!?? Because they're not of their reign or bloodline.
Very persuasive.
No - it was Anubus in his lake, it says so in The Book of the Dead
Did you ever hear the saying “I’ll cut your nose to spite your face”?
Indeed I have!
Hauron is generally depicted anthropomorphically, bearing arms, but sometimes as a falcon. it is unlikely that they commonly depicted him with a human body and decided to go with the alternate for one of the greatest monuments ever built. you say the body was 2 mangled in the 1800s to have been an animals body originally. you also keep saying that the sphinx was once underwater. if the sphinx was underwater the water would have had to run off in the 3-4 well documented shafts at the base of the sphinx. flowing water can eat anything. the sphinx body would be the mangled wreck u saw in 1800 photos. im not saying any of this is true or untrue just my opinion
What you say about religions absorbing deities is *so correct.*
Don't *even* get me started! hahaha