Did the Great Sphinx Have a Falcon Head? Links to the Canaanite God Hauron | Ancient Architects 

That combination of man, cobra and falcon makes me think of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent.

You regularly do first class primary research through meta analytical means. This requires a strong mental control during an endogenously induced dissociative state. I am thoroughly impressed by you, and your work!

For the falcon Sphinx to be reasonable requires an explanation for why a later pharaoh would commit the blasphemy of eliminating the head of a god just to substitute his own. You would think that by the time a pharaoh finally appeared with that much nerve, it would have been too late in Egyptian history for any king to declare himself a god, which it seems he would have to do in order to justify erasing the idol of an embraced historical god. The limestone of the head of the Spinx is the hardest of the three layers, so it's not very likely that an older original falcon head would have become so eroded that it was ripe for reconfiguration. So, if one goes with the theory of an original falcon head, then in what era or by which pharaoh was it sculptured into a human head? That's a rather huge question just left hanging out there.

I think it's more likely a kangaroo

Okay, the savages find an eroded rock in the desert the same shape as the thorax of large prone lying African mammal. Was there first thought a falcons head?? That actually becomes a duck. So if all they found was a head above the sand wouldn't it be natural to dig it all out and have a proper look? Easily done, even if this was a Neolithic civil engineering project to gain control of the tribe. I have been a builder all my life, we always dig down to see if underneath is any good and load bearing. Its still very good stuff Matt and thank you.

The egyptians built everything in proportion but the head of the sphinxs human head is totally out of proportion to the rest of its body. Seems to of been carved at a later date to look like a humans head which would make total sense. Hmm very intresting

Falcon head, lion body, it was a griffin.

Promising better worship, some ancients, when waging war, invited their enemy's gods to defect. I believe the Romans called this 'evocatio'. Egyptians might have had the same habit? Great video.

Awesome work Matt 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼♥️⛰♥️thanx so much

I had just gotten used to the idea that it was not a man. It was either a lion or Anubis and now this? Well, I love it. Bring it on why don’t you. Keep up the good work.

I do like to see your research, but the rushed narrative is killing it for me. I can't keep up with it so there's no use for me to try and see this. Maybe, in future, you'll have a web page with text. I'll be gladly there.

Awesome💥👊Great to hear someone refer to the hugely underestimated Selim Hassan,who grudgingly wrote in 1949 (paraphrased) that though credit appears to go to Khafre for erecting the monument, there is not one single contemporary inscription that connects The Sphinx to Khafre, so we should treat the "evidence " as circumstantial until such time as a lucky turn of the spade,might revel a definite reference to the erection of The Sphinx - we're still waiting. It was Auguste Mariette - founder of the Egyptian Museum ,who unearthed ,in 1857,the "Inventory Stele" (estimated date 678 - 535 BCE) which tells how Khafre came upon the monument ALREADY buried in the sand. Gaston Maspero (2nd director of the Cairo Museum) surveyed the Sphinx in 1886,it was he who concluded the "Dream Stele" showed a cartouche of Khafre in line 13 ,indicating he was responsible for for the excavation & therefore the monument must predate both Khafre and his predecessors. Wallis Budge writing in 1914,concured; dating it the 'Archaic period'(@2686BCE). Maspero believed - at a time that the monument could be CLEARLY seen without ANY of the now "plastic" restoration, that The Sphinx was "the most ancient monument in Egypt"(direct quote,from a man who surveyed it in 1886 in all its weathered glory). Regardless of who it represents in its current form ,.ALL the arguments and semantics are always focused on the identity of the FACE/HEAD - the assumption being it was an ancient lion or jackel OR had been built from scratch by who ever it represented originally. Your hard work and fresh perspective regarding the "body" and the original head is a breath of fresh air AS WELL AS HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE . Colin Reader,is adamant that proportions are all wrong and as the head ,which has always stood above the sand is too un-erodeded it had to have been recarved. He is also adamant it was a lion,based on the "evidence" of representations of lions,in particular a very early carving of a female lion with a pharaoh name under it, he also points to the oldest sphinx ,now in the Cairo Museum, which clearly shows a lions head has been recarved to show a female head. If ALL the theories are simply based upon circumstantial evidence,both pictorially representative and from other statues,then your theory stands up well,kudos👏👏👏👏🌟👊👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍REALLY ENJOYING THIS SERIES,THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK. Very best wishes to you and yours👋🌟✌

Oh I love this stuff !thank you Success,happiness ,and love peace and brotherhood from Nova Scotia Canada

Amazing research excelente job !!!

Perhaps the symbol of the triangle with the shining eye of god is an ancient reference to the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx (the Eye symbolizing the Eye of Horus in the Horizon / Hauron / Huramekuth)

Matt- in your previous vids you showed that you discovered an early depiction of the Sphinx with a chain through its nose as a symbol of subjugation. I think that’s how the nose really got broken off the sphinx. They tried to put a carving or an actual chain on the nose to represent this subjugation as depicted on the rock carving that depicts in miniature and it broke off. Love your channel! Further, originally, given its position between the pyramids, the “head” of the Sphinx could have just been a giant ball to represent the sun sitting in between the pyramids, after generations it weathered and was carved to a head.

Matt I am so glad i found your channel a while back i have learned so much from your videos and have made some of my own conclusion as well based on your findings that are subject of reason and facts i always can't hardly wait for your next video,,,outstanding

Who else here gets a warm smile when you hear the cheerful "Hello everybody and welcome to ancient architects"? :)

One thing I love about this channel is how you are completely comfortable with changing your hypothesis completely in the face of new evidence. More researchers need to be like this.

my conclusion: noone knows what the hell is and was going on lol

This is a fascinating set of perspectives Matt great work 👏👏 There’s a lot to unpack here. One question is, how many other Neolithic structures were immersed in water? One example that comes to mind is Thornborough Henge. I wonder what the significance of this is, if any? From memory Alexander Thom surveyed many such sites and it would be great if you might be able to do a feature on his work too.

Was the Sphinx a jackalope?

I love this content!

@1:00 That statue has a Sphinx like figure carved into side of the base, but it isn't close enough for me to see what sort of head that one has on it. Might be something to check closer if anyone has a full sized version of that image or others of the same statue with a better view of those carvings.

The sphinx was originally a Staffordshire bull terrier called Robbie

amazing video, by the way, the Hauron is related by any means to Horon the brother of Moses? Also another point, Hor-em in arabic means ancient, old and also pyramid, spelled Haram and Horam. so When we say Haram X, we are referring to the name of this Haram or to whom it goes back to. Also, Hauron also can mean in arabic the Hour-Ein and Hour-on, the philosophical meaning of حور عين - Hor Ayn that exists In Janna / heaven. Finally, the work Ahket could mean in arabic Talked or Sister of, depends on the spelling of that word in arabic / hebrew. this can also be played around in arabic, if the word EM took separately, since EM = Mother.

I feel like there’s an episode of Duck Tales where they go to Egypt and the Sphinx has, of course, a duck’s face. Even if I am imagining it, it’s all I could think about the whole time.

7:00 You describe a winged disk, and how the upward curve of the wings is evidence the carving was not of Egyptian origin. Is there a possibility of a video specifically teaching/describing some distinct differences in other contemporary art in the region? (If hieroglyphs are a form of language, would these artistic differences be seen as accents? Like pronouncing "Jesus" in English or "Hay-soos" in Spanish?)

Excellent work brother

It looks like the dynastic Egyptians inherited all those beautiful granitic sculptures and just carved hieroglyphs on them. It's two completely different levels of technology

it was Anubis. The whole area around sphinx was called lake of anubis in ancient times......that locks it in. Was a dog.

Can you just come to a conclusion please!!! My head is spinning from all these theories

Is official, AA is my favorite channel on ALL of youtube!! Keep it up!

I am trying to learn hieroglyphs so I can try to interpret what is said instead of believing what someone else has interpreted it as and it may be bias into thinking that one word means another like you are saying with the similar names of the falcon gods. It is such a small discrepancy but changes things a ton depending on which it is, how much is written down yet just not translated correctly then? Could change everything, it could all be in front of our faces ya know??

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Could have been the face of a pharaoh and a statue of a hawk on top of the statue there's a hole in top of the head of the Spanx where something could have been mounted , set down inside to represent for a horemakhet check it out.

Mind blowing to think about. But you could be on to something here

Really weird though why a lion like body if your putting a falcon head on?we all know falcons are tall birds,I’m starting to think they just changed the head as their politics and faith changed.Did you go to school for this?or is this a hobby?have you ever dug in an archeological trip?

Please get someone else to narrate your posts, either that or narrate like you are not bored out of your tree.

HORUS is the personification of the light that is the culmination of the GREAT WORK, aka the divine union . the light is represented as a lion a solar boat and the cross.

Is it possible that instead of a falcon head, there was a falcon on the back of the Sphinx or some other mounted item on the back of the Sphinx that would have the same symbolic value to the Canaanites?

Nope, it was a lion.

The hawk arrived in a craft 11500bc after the destruction of Atlantis, to get things going again in Egypt, he was not a hawk but dressed as one, so the humans could understand. He was then made into a god as he lived for a very long time! Just maybe...

Producing research links would be nice. Better than simply making claims and supposition. However, skeptical as I am about "information" on this channel this one's a bit interesting for sure.

In ancient times (12.000 + years ago) the eagle or falcon was a symbol of the "Great Spirit" (which is today still present in some cultures around the world - like native Americans).

Great video 👌🏽👍

No notifications on pc but ok on phone And now I have more questions then answers,I don't know what to think anymore,one thing is sure that sphinx enclosure is far older then the pyramids not nessessarily sphinx its self,to me the sphinx looks like resting dog connection to Sirius star always travel together with Orion belt(3 pyramids) and causeway of the second pyramid looks like water channel which leaked into sphynx enclosure,that's why is more water erosion on two sides and why do they point in different directions,the whole plateu is very simetrical and so on,thanks Just theorising

HI!

Sphinx was associated with Horus not because it originally had falcon head, but because they have the same meaning. You noticed yourself in the video that Egyptians called Sphhinx "Horus in the Horizon"(because he "stares" at the horizon). There were a lot of Sphinx statues with falcon heads. To better understand it, compare the Eye of Horus(Wadjet) with gaze of Sphinx, they are the same thing, a quiet but wide awake stare into seemingly nowhere. This is an artistic portrayal of what we now call meditation, which is the base of human development, an ultimately important thing.

Mmmm...I get it. I do. I get it, and I even carefully remembered to leave my biases and preconceptions at the door. I'm trackin' with you, but with all due respect, it feels like a bit of a reach. A reach and a stretch. ..still, you're one of the best historians, and among one of the most impressive and inspired analytical thinkers on youtube. You're also my favorite amateur Egyptologist (for what it's worth). Snd hell, Maybe you're right! I sure don't know! I will say though, my gut tells me you about nailed-it a couple uploads-ago. It even made me real sad, but I thought, holy shit! He's right! It's a mish-mash patchwork from over several developments throughout the ages, though not as old as we had started to believe! It's a cleverly decorated statue/carving, thrown together on an interesting natural outcrop! (or ancient temple?)

Would they carve a lioness though? I mean, was there more interest in a lioness than lion? Obviously a lion would require more stone unless they added it on, but what significance did a lioness have to them? The human head looks really crammed in there for sure, but with the headdress sticking out the sides, I'd say it was a lioness. A jackal head was too skinny and the tail isn't bushy, for starters. Egyptians didn't use forced perspective (making a sphinx's proportions smaller up top to appear taller than it is) so the head being small is just because they didn't have enough stone to work with. They've always seemed to get the proportions right on their statues.

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Hauron is generally depicted anthropomorphically, bearing arms, but sometimes as a falcon. it is unlikely that they commonly depicted him with a human body and decided to go with the alternate for one of the greatest monuments ever built. you say the body was 2 mangled in the 1800s to have been an animals body originally. you also keep saying that the sphinx was once underwater. if the sphinx was underwater the water would have had to run off in the 3-4 well documented shafts at the base of the sphinx. flowing water can eat anything. the sphinx body would be the mangled wreck u saw in 1800 photos. im not saying any of this is true or untrue just my opinion

The dweller in the horizon is exactly correct. Jupiter/Horus is the dweller in the horizon. The Suns horizon. The builders of the sphinx knew that....

I wish that as much critical thinking and logical association went into all the relics in Giza. Great work!!

I love all these Sphinx videos, even tho you keep changing your mind about what the Sphinx originally was.

Interesting.

Symbolic language by the original builders that has been lost long ago.The so called dynastic Egyptians made their own interpretations based upon old legends kept by their priesthood.Making deities out of spiritual aspects of life which the original builders presented in this kind of symbolic art.

I JUST NOTICED THE NOSES ON THE STATUES they're supposedly Ramsey's don't match the nose bridge on his supposed mummy, The mummy has a hooked beak like nose not like the statues

being intermittently dampened by nile flooding surely the sphinx was not Sokar but the Sokee

Short comment; CUT chronology shows 14th and 19th dynasty overlapped. Hence Canaanite/Ramesside convergence. See www.academia.edu/38855909/Coptos_Decrees_Decree_of_Nubkheperre_Antef

I found ADJ's opinion(down below) rather tunnel visioned as he concluded to know the answer, which is absurd! Only for ancient history criticisms to say, you think that's absurd? Someone hold my beer, I'm going in... Of which he makes a false claim from plagiarism. It's a rather ignorat and grandiose statement. Get over yourself seems to be a fitting rebuttal. The work ancient detectives are doing is collectively advancing theories. There is a lot of right fighters among ancient history detectives all of which are working without definitive answers. I just watched Charels Kos so video where he debunks this video. The irony alludes Dr Kos as most of his content has more holes than Swiss cheese. I enjoy AA's work and by the amount of subs I'm hardly alone. No different than everyone else's channels I simply enjoy the theories presented. If not for the popularity of this channel all the contemptuous snarl naysayers wouldn't waste their time. You know you're doing something right whenever they line up to tell you you're doing it wrong. I don't agree with the video Matt, but I thank you for the presentation. I'm aware of my own short comings that I'm basing my disagreement off of. I look forward to the next one.

The key are the Horites in the bible. The priests of Heru in the bible are called Horites=Followers of Heru Horon is a Horite God. The Horites are from EDOM, as Seir the Horite. Horites are the Shemsu Hor. Her Em Akhet ( Sphinx ) is Horemakhet Horemakhet is Heru on the Horizon Heru on the Horizon is Heru Khuti Heru Khuti is Mars as is Horon, who equates to the Martian Deity of the Phonecians, Melqart/Hercules Heru Khuti is the key to the Kemetic mystery system as Heru Khuti ( Mars ) is the secret name of Ra. In the book of the dead, Ra says: * I am Ra who is Heru Khuti ( Mars ) Hence his name is Ra Heru Khuti=Aten Put research into the Horites. Abraham was a Horite jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-were-horites.html?m=1

There is no suggestion in any Egyptian history that the Great Sphinx ever had anything other than a human head. This is a modern proposition to date the sphinx to 10,000 BC. It can clearly be seen that the weathering of the Pharaoh's head cloth known as the nemes is totally eroded from the chin level down. It eroded with the body of the sphinx so it is clearly part of the original sculpture. The top of the head also shows erosion but from the chin up the limestone is a stronger rock so there is less erosion. Because the beard of the Great Sphinx was removed from Egypt few people realise that the Pharaoh's head used to have a beard. Falcons, Jackals and Lions do not have a cross hatched beard. Was it ever a portrait of a pharaoh? It could be an image of a human headed lion Egyptian God. Sphinxes are often lined up like a guard of honour. The God Hauron was an earth God, a protector of desert people and shepherds. A god in the form of a lion symbolises that the God has power over the wild beasts of the field. So the Sphinx may have been a guardian. The Sphinx faces east and sunrise because east symbolises birth and rebirth. The life of Assar (Osiris) reincarnated as Horus, becomes Ra at its zenith and Atum when westing or setting, the Egyptian term for dying. Atum is the word root of Autumn. Atum who congealed his androgynous being or spiritual essence into matter is the original and first God of creation for Egypt. Atum is portrayed as Khepera (Khepra, Khepri) the scarab or dung beetle that brings life from eggs in the dung ball so Khepera brings the life or Horus/Ra from the earth. It is suggested that pharaohs aimed at breaking this cycle by living a good life enabling their soul to return to its origins in the heavens.

Could the Pharaoh Horemheb have had a role in this change from falcon to lion? He came into the scene just after the controversial death of King Tut (despite being born a commoner), and was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He was very active in 'reshaping' the face of Egypt by destroying and overwriting Egyptian history, mostly in response the the 'Heretic' who ruled before him in the guise of 'resurrecting' the old ways. I remember when I first read about him years ago he seemed like a real c*nt and I wouldn't put it past him to do something as revolutionary as remodelling the Sphinx to his own liking.

A theory: if the Sphinx started out as a sacred outcropping, it might have naturally looked like an animal. As erosion changed the face, various explanations of the prominence of this god over that was applied. (The erosion might be visible in a broad general view of how Horus' face is depicted in art over time. It seems the beak progressively shortens and moves up the face over time, in art and other statues.) Eventually, after a major erosion-caused break, the Pharoah restored the outcropping by carving the remains of the outcropping into a face. (Sorry if I am driving you crazy, commenting on all your old videos in profusion, but you do ask us to comment on them if we enjoy them, and I most certainly do. I like how you delve into the evidence at the fringes of archaeology without resorting to aliens or Atlantis. That is a rare and beautiful thing.)

It's where Han Solo made First Contact while gatecrashing the Star Gate set using FTL time travel..... I think y'all find... Whoever first enforced the concept of The One True God is the root of the most evil....

Sticking with my opinion of it being the lion headed serpent... Demiurge... Not because I'm right necessarily but more or less because it's different lol... Also that's not to say it didn't havea falcon head at one time... I'm going back to the original structure

Is there any way that you can add low volume background music/sound. For some reason between the pauses in your narrative cause my phone, no matter how I listen to it, to cut off the first syllable/word after each pause. Would be a small improvement to help make you videos more viewable for me. I love the videos as I am fascinated by ancient civilizations and keep up the good work.

I think originally it was a flooded keyhole tomb and enclosure similar to Japanese types. It's fate a progressive metamorphosis over time by each presiding culture of the moment. Its primary keyhole shape only exists now as a slight suggestion in its aerial topography.

Horakhty is Heru Khuti Ra Horakhty is Ra Heru Khuti Heru Khuti is Heru of Edfu Heru Behutet is Heru Khuti. In the Dream Stele Heru Khuti addressed Thutmoses iv who is the Grandfather of Akhenaten as this: I am your father Horemakhet Khepera Ra Atum. Horemakhet is Heru Khuti I am your father Heru Khuti Khepera Ra Atum

Philip void: seems a lot like this.However, the guide is Scripture not History guides scriptural understanding. This explains your dilemma.

Fascinating stuff. Did anyone else notice the phonetic similarity between Hauron and the Old Testament Aaron? Seems to me, Aaron from the Old Testament was never a real person but a canaanite deity which had to be covered up in the Thora.

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I think it quite unlikely the head was originally anything other than a coincidence that looked like something. Then it got popular for whatever reason and eventually re-carved. People see all sorts of things in natural outcrops. So only one ever shaping to my mind.

It’s not in his mouth he’s going hmmmmmmmmmm!

*If* the east-facing statue is a precessional marker associated with a constellation of stars on the zodiac belt that appears behind the rising sun on an equinox, then it's plausible the statue has been recarved multiple times every 2000 years or so to represent whatever the locals though that constellation represented.

Never!!! A falcon head... NOPE ! My exmother in law was there, she's a real fuckin mummy !

2:30, by Semites, you mean the IsraElites, yes? Of whom the founders of Great Britain were of the tribe of Manasseh and the founders of the United States were of Ephryim.

Have any artifacts or inscriptions ever been found with a falcon head and lion body? None to my knowledge?

If the head was a falcon, then that "bump" on the chest of the Sphinx could be the protected pharaoh, just as depicted in those other statues. Millenia of erosion or deliberate destruction when the head was re-carved could have turned it into what is there now. Yes?

I wonder if the Pre-dynastic Egyptians even existed, or was the whole thing a lesson in history? Then the dynastic Egyptians reconstructed the site and littered it with hieroglyphs.

So much to take in. I’ll need to watch it again? I wonder how you’d interpret the Narmer pallete with this new view of things?

Why wouldn't a culture hand down stories of the history behind these wonders!?? Because they're not of their reign or bloodline.

After this last hypothesis, I thought that the sphinx was originally a griffin. Griffins were quite a popular motif in the old art.

Some pharaohs had snakes on their heads, some had birds, Tutankhamun was the only pharaoh to have both. Why did he have both? What do snakes and birds represent to pharaohs?

great research i love it your best investigation your buttiful explanations on the great pyramid of khufu

The secret is the Canaanites are Horites and the Horites are the Shemsu Hor ( ites ) or followers of Heru. The Sphinx or Her Em Akhet/Horemakhet is the Aten and it tells us that in the Dream Stele. The Aten name is Ra Heru Khuti/Ra Horakhty/Ra Hoor Khuit to Aleister Crowley and Thelema. The secret name of Ra is Heru Khuti ( Mars) Hence his name is Ra Heru Khuti. Akhenaten bloodline is Hurrian. If Noah's Ark lands on Mt Ararat/Arrata/Armenian Highlands, life had to begin in that region and historically these people are called Hurrians. In the bible these Hurrians are called Horites. In Kemet/Egypt the Horites are the Shemsu Hor. Hebrews are Hurrians and Hurrians are Horites and Horites are followers of Heru. Mighty men of old Shemsu Hor Akhenaten bloodline is Hurrian/Hebrew/Horites. The 18th dynasty is Hurrian/Mittani

At 1104 the falcon in the film appears to have an inlay for its face. Is that the case? I wonder why?

A monument in honor of the Apkallu.

No - it was Anubus in his lake, it says so in The Book of the Dead

I do believe it's head had changed numerous times ... most likely starting as a dog

Holy crap. Could you make up your mind?? This is 3 vids in about a week that completely contradict each other. 😂

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you said that because the wings were upturned they were not egyptian can you please explain that?

I cannot tell.. is there a representation, anywhere, of a Sphinx with a falcon head?

Would to love to work with you. Your research is the best ever

Your channel.....I love it!

horon was in Canaan originally a great snake. (see original adam and eve version)

I saw you at Brien livestream of Giza