Amarjah's Musing -Myth, Mysticism & Meaningm
The Sphinx
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The Riddles
No one may know the mysteries without first canswering the questions of the sphinx.
A sphinx is a mythological creature depicted as a feline with a human head. Among the Egyptians, sphinxes at the entrance of the temple guarded the mysteries, by warning those who entered that they should be silent of the mysteries to the uninitiated. The sphinx is the portal to the hidden gods, and that the knowledge of the innermost sanctuaries was revealed to the initiates only.
The sphinx is found in many cultures and civilizations, but the Egyptian sphinx still guards the wisdom of the ages from the casual tourist.
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Invoking the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
The rituals we did long ago at the little house near Athens, GA brought Ancient Egypt or Kemet to the present. The energy transformed us, made us wonder, inspired quests, and awakened us.
As we ended a major outdoor ritual honoring the equinox, I waited on the front porch for the initiates to return one by one as they were ready. I could feel the divine flowing through me and there was a warm glow in the air.
As the young man A. approached, I smiled. He had so much prescence and insight. However, he kept shying away from the two small steps that led to the porch. A. is a powerful man and yet he seemed unable or unwilling to pass through.
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Later he described the porch to be a Hall of Gold and the light to be intensely bright. Perhaps more amazing to him, he felt his ears and nose lengthen as he transformed into the jackel headed god, Anubis.
There is a natural process to prepare for the revelation of the mysteries... look...it is there for all with the eyes to see.
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The Greek Sphinx
The Sphinx guarded the entrance to the city of Thebes, and asked a riddle of travelers to allow them passage. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the stories.
Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland to Thebes in Greece where she asks all passersby the most famous riddle in history:
"Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?"
She strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age.
Sometimes there was a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first."
The answer is "day and night" (both words are feminine in Greek).
Bested at last, the tale continues, the Sphinx then threw herself from her high rock and died.
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