September 03, 2007 10:04AM
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Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> The Sphinx being an integral part of Giza, don't
> you think that the perists would have shown him
> that? He saw the water shaft, for pete's sake!!
>
What "water shafts" do you think he saw?
The priests were reading from the walls of the causeway, pyramid temple and pyramid. He need have seen nothing but the causeway and the pyramid temple to have experienced nearly everything he cites.
In fact, there is no evidence he visited anything but Khufu's pyramid at Giza. Read the passages carefully, and you'll see it is all he really did. Every reference is relative to the Khufu pyramid and temples. He does not measure the other ones. It appears Herodotus never made it outside the Khufu complex walls.
And from that perspective, the sphinx is completely obscured from sight.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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