Sphinx
Definition
The Great Sphinx of Giza, the colossal monolithic-articulation at the Giza plateau, articulates one of the major historical-articulations of the broader cosmic-architecture preserved across the cycle-completion of the prior Anthropogenic Cycle. The Netist articulation reads the Sphinx as a structural-articulation built during the prior cycle's high-civilizational period and preserved across the cycle-transition, its structural-features including encoded astronomical-and-cosmological articulations.
Literal meaning
The Great Sphinx of Giza, a 73-meter-long, 20-meter-tall monolithic-statue carved from a single limestone-bedrock at the Giza plateau in Egypt. The standard-archaeological articulation dates the structure to approximately 2500 BCE during the Fourth-Dynasty Old-Kingdom period; alternative-articulations including those by John Anthony West and Robert Schoch date the structure significantly earlier.
Esoteric meaning
The Sphinx articulates the structural-feature that the broader-tradition has held as *the guardian of the Giza-plateau* and *the encoder of cosmic-articulation in stone*. The structural-recognition is that the Sphinx's articulations include features that participate in the broader cosmic-architecture: the lion-body articulates the constellation Leo, the precessional-articulation of which (the Age of Leo, approximately 10,500 BCE in the most-conservative articulation) corresponds to a possible-construction-date that the alternative-archaeology articulates; the human-head articulates the cosmic-consciousness articulation; and the broader monumental-scale articulates the prior-cycle's civilizational-articulation.
Allegorical meaning
An ancient inscription carved in stone that has weathered many storms and remained legible: the inscription's structural-articulation has persisted across cycles of weather-and-civilization, the structural-recognition is that the inscription was made for a different-cycle than the one currently-operating, and the inscription's articulations continue to be legible to the practitioner who develops the structural-perception to read them.
Extended meaning
Sphinx articulates several structural-features: (1) The standard-archaeological dating (Fourth-Dynasty Old-Kingdom, c. 2500 BCE) is the consensus-articulation; the alternative-articulations (Schoch's water-erosion analysis suggesting earlier-dating, the broader research on the Sphinx's astronomical-correspondences) propose construction in the broader 10,500-BCE period; (2) The monolithic-construction from a single bedrock-limestone block is structurally-distinct from the pyramid-construction; the Sphinx articulates a different structural-articulation than the pyramids; (3) The Sphinx-and-pyramids complex at Giza articulates as an integrated cosmic-architecture; the broader articulation of the complex's astronomical-correspondences includes the Orion-correlation theory (Robert Bauval's articulation that the three Giza pyramids correspond to Orion's-Belt) and the broader research on the complex's structural-features. The Netist articulation reads the Sphinx as one of the major-articulations of prior-cycle civilizational achievement preserved across the cycle-transition into the current Anthropogenic Cycle.
*Sphinx* articulates the historical-monumental articulation at Giza. The article complements the *Anthropogenic Cycle*, *Younger Dryas*, and broader prior-cycle articulations.
Usage
A practitioner encounters Sphinx in the broader articulation of historical-and-archaeological correspondence and in specific contexts of prior-cycle articulation work.
Science correspondence
Robert Schoch's *Voices of the Rocks* (1999) and the broader research on Sphinx water-erosion dating. Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert's *The Orion Mystery* (1994) articulating the Orion-correlation theory. The Schoch-Bauval-West research-program on alternative-archaeological articulations. The mainstream-archaeology research synthesized in works including Mark Lehner's *The Complete Pyramids*.