There, I said it.
Today, September 1st 2020 –mid pandemic, go figure, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt has opened all of its museums and sites to visitors.
If I was able, I would for sure visit and to heck with me and my life. I am fascinated by all periods of Egyptian history, from the Predynastic up to British colonial times. More than 5000 years of history and art.
My favorite is by far the Old Kingdom. Everything just seems so current and modern albeit mysterious and ancient. So familiar it’s almost trivial and the same time like visiting another planet. My wish would be for every human person to visit and be in awe and humbled by Egyptian culture.
However, I hope no one risks their lives to see this piece of garbage art.
Impressive: sure, whatever. but not the most aesthetically well-rounded monument from ancient Egypt.
I dated this guy. He was a fairly good person, kinda good-looking. I liked him, however, I could never get over the fact that his head was so disproportionately small for his body. He seemed out-of-place wherever he went and weirdly vulnerable.
One thing he did have going for him though, was that he didn’t look like a misshapen penis from behind. Something that cannot be said of the sphinx. Look at this mess:
If it belonged to any other culture I guess I would be fine with it, but excuse me, have you met Egyptian art from the old kingdom?
Not amateurs. They did not have any issues with accurate human representations.
Or animal representation for that matter.
If they could build such beautiful statues for some upper middle management guy like Imhotep -look it up- or some rando scribe like this.
why would they build such a monument to hideousness?
It baffles me.
Ancient Egyptians of all periods knew what had to be done. And they did IT.
So why put so much effort and resources into something so ugly right beside such testaments to perfection that were the great pyramids? That, BTW, at the time were smooth white limestone. WHY? It seems to me, that at some point, someone with a lot of power and an equivalent to a business degree made an executive decision and fucked things up.
There is no other explanation.
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I wish this theory was true:
Because I like dogs better than people, even if it is the Lord of Death, Anubis, Master of Secrets.
Just wishful thinking on my part for sure.
Those paws on the sphinx are lion’s paws and ancient Egyptians knew their paws. Look at these:
So it was probably always a sphinx.
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Now that I look them up I can say that all sphinxes are kinda super ugly.
No secret here.
Don’t risk your life for it.
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