The Sphinx

The Sphinx


 - Grandpa, tell me another one of your stories! Please!

I was looking at this little man, my nephew, age 12, already member of Mensa.

 - This is a story from the time of the Old Kingdom, the story of the Sphinx. I remember like it was yesterday. The majestic statue was just finished, by the order of the Pharaoh Kafra, son of Keops. His face was bright red,symbol of life, his Nemes yellow and blue, symbol of eternity and rebirth. A wall surrounded him, to protect it from the wind of the desert. In front of the Sphinx was a circle of 24 stones, like in Stonehenge, and a gate. At the time of the Equinox the sunlight went between the stones, through the gate, over Sphinx shoulder, showing the secret entrance to the Room and the Secrets, in the pyramid of Kafra. That was the only time when you could open the door.

- How was inside, Grandpa?

- You want to know, of course ? You could go inside, a corridor begin, neverending candles in your left and in your right, small recipients of glass, having a small sun inside them, harnessing the power of the Atom. The room was magical, and i was one of the few allowed to go in there, being a priest of Ra. The Eye of Horus was there, a magical portal where you can see anything, in any place or time. We used to look for Isis, the goddess that told us about her rebirth under the strange name of Joanna Southcott. We never found her. But let me tell you more about the Sphinx. Centuries passed. The wall was now destroyed, and the Old kingdom was only a legend. A new pharaoh, Thutmose, dreamed about the need to restore the statue of the Sphinx, and that in doing this, he will rule the Egypt once again. He restored the wall and the front legs. It is the year 2600 b.C., and the New Kingdom appear. 1200 b.C. - greeks tried to restore it again, but nothing can stand before the sand and the Time. 600 years later the Romans see it for the first time, they reinforce again the front legs. That was the last time somebody tried to restore it. Napoleon and his army tried to shoot the nose, already destroyed. And i was there, every time, to witness the decline of my ancient world. I am the last man to belong to the Old Kingdom, a spell gone wrong making me immortal. And i used to hear this: the old stories said to us that the world will end when the Sphinx will be destroyed. It is 5000 years old now. And still counting.

 

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In the February 2014, 200 years after the prophetess Joanna Southcott gave it to the Bedford museum, part of the Panacea Society, a sealed box had to be opened after 2 centuries, with 24 bishops meet for this reason. An envelope was there, with the message " For the survival of the human race". But as they open it , the paper inside the envelope start to crumble and become dust. Nobody will ever know what was the message.

 

 

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Mihalache George Catalin - Author
Mihalache George Catalin - Author

George Catalin Mihalache published his first book in 2015, his 30 years work into poetry, called 'Indescriptible'. available only in the Romanian language. He is also working on few other books and published about subjects related to short fantasy stories, biochemistry, diet, nutrition, memory enhancing techniques and impostor syndrome. After a couple of published books related to macrobiotics, he is trying to come back to his first love, fantasy short stories.

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