[muawiyah]

BTW, the argument is that there are sphinx-like statues all over the place and they are painted red, white, or red & white to stand for upper and lower Egypt. I am far from the first to propose the coloring. Rather, I predicted it and then folks came forward with all sorts of earlier studies where that's what they found.

I did not say the Sphinx head was painted red ~ but that it had red stripes. There is a report on the net to that effect. It's based on a study done by an archaeologist. The stripes also have white dots.

Amanita has most of its red dots in a band anyway. Regarding dating, the Sahara was in a pluvial right up to the beginning of Egyptian civilization in upper Egypt. The pluvial ended. Everybody moved out of the desert to the river or South to wetter areas in Africa.

Did amanita grow in Egypt or nearby in those times? Frankly, I don't know, and haven't encountered any studies that say that it did. On the other hand, it was a source of dope and all it took was one guy who'd been to the Alps or other mountains in Europe, and he'd know what it looked like. Did people visit those mountains? See Oetzi

[dangus]

>> It’s a common misperception that the Sphinx didn’t exist during the Ice Age. <<

If you believe Roland Emmerich movies. But then again, you face the problem of cavemen or space aliens.

>> BTW, the argument is that there are sphinx-like statues all over the place <<

yes...

>> and they are painted red, white, or red & white to stand for upper and lower Egypt. <<

... no.

>> I did not say the Sphinx head was painted red ~ but that it had red stripes. <<

Which is (1) false, (2) unlike the mushroom in question.

>> Amanita has most of its red dots in a band anyway. <<

Not in any pictures I’ve ever seen... although they sorta can clump up around the bottom forming a band.

>> Regarding dating, the Sahara was in a pluvial right up to the beginning of Egyptian civilization in upper Egypt. <<

Egypt is where it is because of the Nile River. Prior to he rest of the region drying up, there’s little reason for such a concentration of people as to create such massive works.

>> On the other hand, it was a source of dope and all it took was one guy who’d been to the Alps or other mountains in Europe, and he’d know what it looked like. <<

By that logic, all you’d need is anybody to go anywhere and anything can be proven to be anything else.