A Theory That Breaks New Ground
My theory, however, doesn't negate in whole any of the existing theories, both alternative and establishment. All of those theories have been well researched and thought out. Rather, it modifies their timetables and some of their assumptions (and therefore some of their conclusions). I include in this the alternative theories of John Anthony West, Robert Schock, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock and their counterparts, as well as the establishment theories of Mark Lehner and his counterparts.
The solution to this sucker punch is for alternative thinkers to begin to see that the Sphinx was created for the most part by a hunter-gatherer culture, like the one that created Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, for which there are absolutely no cultural artifacts of the kind you would find from a highly organized, agricultural dynastic-like culture. Hunter-gatherer cultures leave no traces except a few bones. Yet one of them created the monumental Gobekli Tepe art in Turkey. Explain me that Mister Artifacts.
Pretty much the same the same thing (an absence of surrounding artifacts) can be said of the Rapa Nui and Olmec heads, except they were carved relatively recently so there are a few artifacts, mostly small carved sculptures, nothing even approaching the size and complexity of the heads themselves. Nothing. Like the face of the Sphinx, they seem to have appeared out of nowhere with no steps leading up to them.
Author's Note
The Egyptian sands do present a truly formidable problem in trying to look into the very distant past , i.e., 6000 B.C., but artifact burial in any climate is a problem archeologists almost always encounter. Dirt gathers in more than corners. Over time, it covers everything.
Sometimes burial is brought about the forces of nature. However, it seems both the Olmec heads and the monuments at Gobekli Tepe were purposefully buried, which delayed their discovery. The forces of nature then added their two cents over the centuries.
If a few more thousand years had passed before the discovery of Rapa Nui, I suspect that the Rapa Nui heads would have been fully buried and not just up to the waist .
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Author's Note
In the event you think other Sphinx theories are based on hard, irrefutable facts, let me inform you that all of the existing alternative and establishment theories about the Sphinx (when it was built and why) are based on conjecture. No hard evidence exist backing any of these theories. Just intelligent conjectures like my own.
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In addition to my earlier contention the Sphinx was carved in imitation of a cheetah, I also believe that the face we now see on the Sphinx is the original face, the face of a Nubian female shaman carved circa 6000 B.C..
Therefore, it would be appropriate that the face of the Sphinx (and later the head and body) would reflect Mafdet's cheetah/human nature as well as what our female Nubian shaman looked like.
The Photoshop split face (above, L) suggests what that human/cheetah, weathered face might have looked like. You'll have to forgive my imitation. Such a face would have surely been more vague and not as as symmetrical.
The photo below shows an actual weathered rock resembling a bear so you get some idea as to what these things actually look like. Later on, I'll show you photos of many naturally weathered faces on cliffs.
This combination of a caul and human/cheetah characteristics would have given such a "weathered" face a spiritual authority that is hard for us to imagine. Prehistoric Egyptians would have taken it to be a divine God-face that had existed since the creation of the world, especially since they would most probably have also recognized it as a representation of Mafdet, the Cheetah Goddess, who was half female, half cheetah.
As I said earlier, many will object to all this as being mere conjecture, as there is no way of knowing if such a weathered face or such a Nubian female shaman ever existed. I agree they are conjectures. The weathered face is a conjecture based on the possibility that a series of environmental accidents happened that resulted in something like a weathered face. Science doesn't like these kinds of accidents.
The probability of my rock face "accident" occurring is very large compared to that number. Such "weathered faces" happen all the time around the world as I shall show later on.
