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Book Of The Sphinx
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Author : Willis Goth Regier
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-12-01
Book Of The Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.
Arm Of The Sphinx
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Author : Josiah Bancroft
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-08-22
Arm Of The Sphinx written by Josiah Bancroft and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with Fiction categories.
Senlin continues his ascent up the tower in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. "One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence on Senlin Ascends The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt to rescue Senlin's lost wife continues. Hopeless and desolate, they turn to a legend of the Tower, the mysterious Sphinx. But help from the Sphinx never comes cheaply, and as Senlin knows, debts aren't always what they seem in the Tower of Babel. Time is running out, and now Senlin must choose between his friends, his freedom, and his wife. Does anyone truly escape the Tower?
The Book Of The Sphinx
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Author : Colin Naylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Book Of The Sphinx written by Colin Naylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with English literature categories.
The Message Of The Sphinx
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Author : Graham Hancock
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2009-06-10
The Message Of The Sphinx written by Graham Hancock and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-10 with Social Science categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two Egypt experts posit a revolutionary theory: The Sphinx and other great Egyptian monuments are older than common history books tell us and are arranged in such a way as to send us a message from the silent past. Guardian of the ancient mysteries, the keeper of secrets . . . For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed toward the east, its eyes focused on eternity, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. And today as our civilization stands poised at the end of a great cycle, it is a message that beckons insistently to be understood. All the clues are in place. Geology and archeo-astronomy have already indicated that the lion-bodied Sphinx may be vastly older than Egyptologists currently believe, dating not from 2500 B.C., but from 10,500 B.C.—the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo. And we now know that the three pyramids of Giza, standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are in fact a precise map of the three stars of Orion’s belt, formed in fifteen million tons of solid stone. Are these monuments trying to tell us something? And, if so, what? In The Message of the Sphinx, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work that unravels the millennial code embodied in these structures. Using sophisticated computer simulations of ancient skies, they unravel the riddle of the Sphinx, and they present a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. Their discoveries lead the authors to this question: Does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny—a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past, at a precise place and time? The secrets can be kept no longer. The Message of the Sphinx brings them to light.
The Scholar The Sphinx And The Shades Of Nyx
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Author : Alison Reeger Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-08
The Scholar The Sphinx And The Shades Of Nyx written by Alison Reeger Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-08 with Adventure stories categories.
Cervera, Spain, 1852. David Sandoval is a sixteen-year-old genius on many different subjects, yet he is more content studying than becoming close with family or friends. When he accepts an apprenticeship offer from a French architect, he is convinced that this will be the biggest achievement of his life. While on his travels to Paris, a foolhardy decision on his part gets him abducted by a gypsy caravan, owned by a living Grecian sphinx. The sphinx, seemingly intrigued by the fearless young man, takes him through the Curtain, the gateway between our world and the worlds of the "unseen," where many creatures of myth and legend reside. When David discovers that he has unwittingly proposed to the sphinx--who appears pleased to have him as a potential mate--he attempts to escape back through the Curtain to the human world, only to be sent to Kyoto, Japan, and that is only the beginning of his problems. On his adventure to return home, he learns a dark secret: a Shade, an extension of the shadowy Night Goddess Nyx, is slowly draining the sphinx of her most precious talents. David might be the only human on earth with the knowledge of how to save the sphinx from a lethal blight imposed on her by Nyx, and he must also save his new friends from a ruthless adversary, the Teumessian. Can one normal boy truly undo the inflictions of a goddess, and rescue both the seen and unseen worlds from her dark intentions?
The Book Of The Sphinx
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Author : Willis Goth Regier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-12
The Book Of The Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12 with Great Sphinx (Egypt) categories.
Willis Goth Regier unearths the many forms of the sphinx and explores the extraordinary appeal of the silent and mysterious winged figure. He digs deep into the cultural history of the sphinx, taking the reader on a fascinating journey through ancient Egypt, Greece and Babylon, into Judaism and Christianity which have both adopted the sphinx as an angelic being, and into the heart of Romantic and modern art and literature, where every author from Oscar Wilde to Ken Follett, via D. H. Lawrence and Simone de Beauvoir, seems to have found a role for the sphinx.
Sphinx
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Author : Anne Garreta
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-21
Sphinx written by Anne Garreta and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-21 with Fiction categories.
A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.
Sphinx
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Author : Christiane Zivie-Coche
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2004
Sphinx written by Christiane Zivie-Coche and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old."--from the IntroductionThe Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity.Christiane Zivie-Coche, a distinguished Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table.
The Great Sphinx
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Author : Tyler Gieseke
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2021-08-01
The Great Sphinx written by Tyler Gieseke and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This book examines the history, construction, and legacy of the Great Sphinx, and sphinx symbolism in culture. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, an infographic, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.
Marcy And The Riddle Of The Sphinx
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Author : Joe Todd-Stanton
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Marcy And The Riddle Of The Sphinx written by Joe Todd-Stanton and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Kids will love this exciting excavation of ancient Egyptian myths as they follow along with the clever Marcy on a quest to save her dad from the belly of the sphinx! Many years have passed since the tale of Arthur and the Golden Rope, and Arthur is now a world-famous adventurer. If only his daughter Marcy shared his enthusiasm for exploration... Determined to bring out Marcy's adventurous side, Arthur sets off to Egypt to bring back the legendary Book of Thoth. When Arthur doesn't return, Marcy must follow in his footsteps. Can she overcome her fears and rescue her father from the clutches of the great Sphinx?