The Other Sphinx - One Lion Short of a Threshold

The Other Sphinx - One Lion Short of a Threshold

Published: April 29, 2026

Duration: 1:45:19

Italian researchers recently claimed 80% confidence in a buried second sphinx at Giza, and the mainstream dismissed it before the news cycle finished. But the question they raised is not new. It goes back to the oldest religious texts we have.

 The god the sphinx was built to embody was Aker, one of the most ancient deities in the Egyptian pantheon. He was always depicted as two lions named Yesterday and Tomorrow, guarding the eastern and western horizons, holding the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The Dream Stele placed between the s...