My choice is lion for apparent reasonns in construction of the body and paws. Situated and Faced toward Leo some thousands of years ago according to one astronomer’s calculations.
“My choice is lion for apparent reasons in construction of the body and paws.”
I agree and think you are right, An ungulate would never lay like that on it’s chest front legs stretched out forward. That is a predatory or guarding Cat and Dog profile. An ungulate would curl it’s legs under and lay on it’s side.
But the same concept was also applied to the premise that it might be a Bull. They propose it is even much older than assumed and once aligned with Taurus.
But my curiosity would be... While modern scientists are using Leo and Taurus as cosmology references, were the more modern Leo and Taurus even recognized constellations to the very ancient Egyptians?
Do we even know this for sure? What if to the very ancient Egyptians those particular Constellations were actually a Monkey and a Lizard instead, and there are no relations at all to the why they made the Sphinx as they did.
Meaning both applied assumptions above could be wrong and there might be some other influence involved for the Sphinx that needs to be explored... :)