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Authors: Graham Hancock; Robert Bauval

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The message of the Sphinx: a quest for the hidden legacy of mankind

The Message of the Sphinx

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The Message of the Sphinx

A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

Graham Hancock

Robert Bauval

Three Rivers

Press New York

Copyright © 1996 by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced

or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,

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retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

 

Published by Three Rivers Press, 201 East 50th Street,

New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group.

 

Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd.,

and in the United States by Crown Publishers, Inc., in 1996.

 

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Diagrams by Robert G. Bauval and R. J. Cook

Photographs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22,

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, and 32 by Santha Faiia.

Photographs 11, 12, 15, and 16 courtesy of Rudolph Gantenbrink.

Photograph 29 by Robert G. Bauval.

Photograph 7 courtesy of
Venture Inward
magazine.

Photograph 13 Spiegel TV.

Photograph 14 Antoine Boutros.

Photograph 1 The Lady Sophia Schilizzi.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data is available upon request.

 

ISBN 0-517-88852-1

 

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

 

First Paperback Edition

To the memory of my father Gaston Bauval,

who rests in the land of Egypt.

 

Robert G. Bauval

To my friend, John Anthony West, for his twenty years of courageous work to prove the geological antiquity of the Sphinx, and for the vast implications of the evidence that he has put before the public. ‘The truth is great and mighty,’ as the ancient texts say. ‘It hath never been broken since the time of Osiris.’

 

Graham Hancock

Contents

Contents

Line Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Part I

Chapter 1

Enduring memories

Stillness and silence

Chapter 2

Undatable, anonymous

One syllable

Context

Water erosion

Not floodwaters

Rainfall

A rude interruption

When did it rain?

Jury still out

Chapter 3

Impossible engineering

How, why, when?

Memorials mighty

Not purely symbolic boats

The Pyramids

High precision

Chambers and passageways

Inner space

The stones of darkness and the shadow of death

Very interesting developments

Labyrinth

The mystery of the shafts

Chapter 4

Observatory

Targeting Stars

The Companions of Osiris

A perfect match

Rising stars

Lion on the ground, lion in the sky

Motive in the texts

Fundamental questions

Part II

Chapter 5

Trancing the Hall of Records

The Scholar

Proof under the paws

Anomalies

A falling out

Granite structures

The mapping surveys

Pulling away

Lunch with Mr. Cayce

Correspondence

Chapter 6

Double standard

The iron plate affair

Scientific analysis

The British Museum’s view

Stargate

Unknown dark distance

Links

The British Museum and the missing cigar box

Chapter 7

Planning an adventure

Diversion and delay

Upuant II

Problems with permits

Discovery

Much ado, then nothing

Political games

Breakfast with Gantenbrink

Select groups

Burial

Part III

Chapter 8

Cosmic environment

Astronomical essence

Otherworld

Stars rising with the sun

Cosmic river

Kingdom of Osiris in the sky

‘First Time’

Golden Age and the entry of evil

Shabaka texts

Treasure trail

Sphinx god

Roads of Rostau

Chapter 9

Celestial reflections

Astronomer-priests

Living image of Atum

Atum, Re and Horakhti

Horus, Dweller-in-the-Horizon

The ‘Two Horizons’ of Heliopolis

Strange silence

Searching for Horakhti

Geographical and cosmological context

Chapter 10

Child of the Sun, son of Osiris

Seventy days from Horakhti

The High Road and the Low Road

Subterranean world

Tunnel

Stargate

The Splendid Place of the ‘First Time’

Part IV

Chapter 11

Three eras

High initiates

Following the Way of Horus

Chapter 12

Guardians of records

Memories of the dawn

Wisdom and knowledge

Heliopolitan origins

Cycle of the phoenix

Ancestor gods

Chapter 13

Shining ones

Legacy

Gods and heroes

Time bridge

Following the vernal point

Chapter 14

Journey in time

Becoming equipped

Unification

High and far-off times

Chapter 15

Separation

Doubles

Link-up

Riding the vernal point

Secret spell

Special numbers

Seekers after truth

Chapter 16

Anti-cipher

Durable vehicles

Hints and memories

The language of the stars

Thought-tools

Chapter 17

Fine-tuning Leo

Setting stars

Sirius

Cross-quarter causeways

Treasure map

Conclusion

Osiris breathes

Appendix 1

A state of perfect order

Maat

Juggling for balance

Three Wise Men

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Further developments

The Great Pyramid

The Great Sphinx

The Edgar Cayce legacy

Mars and Giza:

Selected Bibliography

Line Illustrations

1.         Profile of the Great Sphinx from the south.

2.         Overhead view of the principal monuments of the Giza necropolis.

3.         The Great Sphinx and the architectural complex that surrounds it.

4.         The artificial ‘Horizon of Giza’.

5.         Geodetic location of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

6.         Cross-section of the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

7.         Internal corridors and passageways of the three Pyramids of Giza.

8.         Principal internal features of the Great Pyramid.

9.         Detail of the corridors, chambers and shafts of the Great Pyramid

10.     The complex internal design of the Great Pyramid.

11.     The King’s and Queen’s Chambers and their four shafts.

12.     Details of the Queen’s Chamber and its shafts.

13.     Queen’s Chamber wall and shaft mouth.

14.     Construction details of the Great Pyramid shafts.

15.     The summer solstice as seen from Giza.

16.     The trajectory of the sun on the summer solstice.

17.     The trajectory of the sun on the equinox.

18.     The trajectory of the sun on the winter solstice.

19.     The horizon of Giza and the meridian of the Great Pyramid.

20.     Culmination (meridian-transit) of Orion’s belt
circa
2500 BC.

21.     Orion and Osiris.

22.     The stellar alignments of the Great Pyramid’s four shafts.

23.     Orion’s belt crossing the meridian of the Great Pyramid in 2500 BC.

24.     The sky-ground image of Giza-Orion’s belt in 10,500 BC.

25.     The 10,500 BC ‘lock’ with Giza.

26.     Artist’s impression of Orion’s precessional cycle at meridian.

27.     The trajectory of Orion’s belt throughout the ages.

28.     Pre-dawn at the spring (vernal) equinox in 10,500 BC.

29.     Superimposed images of the rising of Leo in 2500 BC and 10,500 BC.

30.     Sunrise at the spring (vernal) equinox in 10,500 BC.

31.     Artist’s impression of the ‘First Time’ of Osiris-Orion.

32.     ‘Sah’ (Osiris-Orion), the ‘Far Strider’.

33.     Detail of Queen’s Chamber shaft.

34.     The Memphite necropolis.

35.     Sunrise at solstices and equinoxes as seen from Giza.

36.     The sky region of the
Duat.

37.     Map of the apex region of the Nile Delta.

38.     The ‘Land of Sokar’ in the Fifth Division of the
Duat.

39.     The Fifth Division of the
Duat.

40.     The summer solstice as seen from Giza
circa
2500 BC.

41.     The Denderah Zodiac.

42.     Horakhti, ‘Horus-of-the-Horizon’.

43.     Artist’s impression of ‘reconstructed’ Sphinx.

44.     The
Duat
sky-region at dawn throughout the year,
circa
2500 BC.

45.     The ‘solar’ Horus crossing the Milky Way.

46.     The ‘solar’ Horus in the paws of Leo.

47.     The ‘astral’ Kingdom of Osiris in Rostau.

48.     The Horus-King being led into the Great Pyramid.

49.     The ‘astral’ Great Pyramid and its stargates.

50.     The rising of Leo at the summer solstice
circa
2500 BC.

51.     The summer solstice
circa
2500 BC.

52.     The Horus-King statue between the paws of the Sphinx.

53.     Osiris-Orion showing the way to his ‘Followers’, the Horus-Kings.

54.     Artist’s impression of the ‘Mansion of the Phoenix’.

55.     Osiris-Orion, Isis-Sirius and the Horus-Kings.

56.     Great conjunction of the ancient skies at the spring (vernal) equinox
circa
10,500 BC

57.     The sky-
Duat
and the ground-
Duat
of Osiris.

58.     The ‘drift’ of Orion from 10,500 BC to 2500 BC.

59.     The setting of Orion’s belt and the ‘satellite’ pyramids of the ‘horizon’ of Giza in 10,500 BC.

60.     Artist’s impression of the ‘First Time’ of Sirius, in the epoch of 10,500 BC.

61.     The course of the sun throughout the year as viewed from the latitude of Giza.

62.     The 14 degree north of east alignment of the Khufu causeway at the north cross-quarter sunrise.

63.     The due east (equinox) alignment of the Menkaure causeway.

64.     The 14 degree south of east alignment of the Khafre causeway at the ‘south’ cross-quarter sunrise.

65.     The rising of Leo and the ‘south’ cross-quarter sunrise in 10,500 BC.

66.     Hor-em-akhet (Sphinx) gazing at Horakhti (Leo) at the ‘south’ cross-quarter sunrise in 10,500 BC.

67.     Profile of the Great Sphinx in the ‘ground-horizon’ of Giza.

68.     The place-time datum of 10,500 BC under ‘Leo’.

69.     Possible locations of an underground system of passageways and chambers beneath the Great Sphinx.

70.     The Djed pillar of Osiris, flanked by Isis and Nepthys.

71.     Sun-boat on the back of the double-lion hieroglyph for Aker; Great Pyramid looking west; Osirian Djed pillar looking west.

72.     The Scales of
Maat.

73.     Cross-sections of the Great Pyramid showing the ‘balancing’ of the monument with the star-shafts.

74.     The ‘scales’ of Orion at the ‘nadir’ and ‘apex’ of the current Precessional Cycle and the ages of Leo (10,500 BC) and Aquarius (2450 AD).

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