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To: blam
The top, back of the Sphinx head is clearly a mushroom ~ an hallucinogenic mushroom to boot ~ amanita muscaria to be exact. That's why the causeway was built around the Sphinx, which, although not as large as it is today was certainly an ancient sacred spot.

Later on the neck and body were added as building stone was removed for temple and pyramid construction. Finally a face was carved on the front of the mushroom.

However, no matter what they did, it was still a mushroom that looked pretty much like this one, and most likely traces of red and white paint pigments can be found in this area:


6 posted on 12/13/2004 5:45:06 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

LOL!!

Good one!


13 posted on 12/13/2004 6:06:15 PM PST by Max Combined (Clinton is "the notorious Oval Office onanist")
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To: muawiyah

Interesting, I'd never heard that, didn't know they grew
anywhere in Egypt.


28 posted on 12/13/2004 6:45:44 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: muawiyah

No way it was a mushroom. I'm no Coptic studies guy, but I don't buy this for a minute. Are you suggesting that all the headresses of this shape are modeled after A. muscaria?


71 posted on 01/09/2005 9:32:54 AM PST by dinodino
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To: muawiyah

Is that a real mushroom? And if so is that a "magic mushroom"?


75 posted on 01/09/2005 9:46:05 AM PST by winodog (I am gonna stop calling them liberals. They are humanists. Liberal is actually a good word)
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To: muawiyah

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114 posted on 01/13/2005 6:21:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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