| Show Sphinx Has Seen History Repeat Repeal Inscrutable Eye Scans of Mans Man's Years FOR F OR YEARS the great Sphinx of ot Egypt at Giza has watched the antics of ot mankind with an amused slight smile on his lips Although said to be suffering from rom old age and presently undergoing undergoing undergoing under under- going plastic surgery the human- human headed lion-bodied lion figure seems in good enough health for several more centuries c That sport began about years before the birth of ot Christ inthe in inthe inthe the days of ot Egypt's Old Kingdom and its great pyramid builders The Two Lands Lands Lands-as as the nation was known were known were then s strong t r 0 n g and wealthy Wars were not yet the fashion i if one historian is to be believed believed believed be be- and farmers had time from their labors to gratify their rulers' rulers desires desire for indestructible tombs Then as now such words had limited effect and the Old Kingdom dissolved into years of political turmoil In the words of at writers of ot the time Yesterday Is perished and violence is come upon all men Behold he that possessed wealth now the night athirst Behold Behold Behold Be Be- hold noble ladies go hungry What was prepared for them goes to sate the butchers Verily the children of at princes are dashed against the walls Into the revolutions about 2000 BC B.C. rode the strong man of ot his day I who in the fashion of ot dictators counseled hisson his hisson hisson son thus That thou beking be beking beking king of ot the earth harden thyself against all subordinates The people people peo peo- pie give heed to him who terrorizes them approach them not alone Fill not thy heart with a 1 brother know not a friend The Sphinx saw the Middle KIngdom Kingdom Kingdom King KIng- dom die and the Early Empire 1580 1375 BC B.C. rise and fall Across the sky of the Later Empire which lasted until about 1000 BC B.C. blazed the personality of at one of Egypt's most remarkable men I 4 |
