The Message of the Sphinx by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval collates past theories about the origin of the Sphinx and the names given to the Sphinx in the past, and the editors assess that the leonine form of the Sphinx, and the position of the three main pyramids of Gizeh, correlate with the position of the constellation Leo directly above the Sphinx in approximately 10,400 BC, and that position of the the three stars in the belt of Orion at that time corresponded with the precise position of the three large pyramids of Gizeh.

   They quote the writing of Hermes or Thoth of Egypt who is well known for assessing the paradigm As above, So Below, meaning that the same cosmic logic that rules the stars rules the way of earth and its beings.  In fact, if one truly assesses the attitude of Hermes expressed in As Above, So Below,  we can see that also it also refers to karmic law: as we treat the universe and its inhabitants, so are we treated.  It is in fact a view that, when practically applied, promotes harmony among all beings, unlike Genesis 1: 26-28, which states that humans have a divine sanction to subdue the earth and have dominion over other creatures.
 

  Moreover, the authors quite logically accurately assess that the Sphinx must also be seen in context with its architectural surroundings, not only with the three largest pyramids, but with the entire architectural complex that is notable in Gizeh.

     Let me relate several salient points of their research, all of which confirm that the Sphinx was Vedic in origin, namely coming from the Sabean and Vaishnava traditions that we now associate with India, but which were traditions that were universal, reaching throughout much of the Eastern as well as Western worlds.
 

     First, Hancock and Bauval discuss the research of Egyptologist Selim Hassan who discovered during the 1930s and 40s evidence that a colony of "foreigners," "Cananites," had resided in the area in the early second millennium BC.  Moreover, the Cananites were from the sacred city of Harran in Turkey, near its border with Syria. Harran we know was named after Hara, the name of Shiva as the Destroyer.  The followers of Shiva, who is known as Seb or Geb in ancient Egypt, are known as Sabeans.
 

   The Canaanites derived their name from Kannan, a Tamil Hindu name for Vishnu or Krishna. Remember that the promised land of Canaan in the Torah is known as the land of milk and honey, favorite foods of the Hindus since the time of the Vedas.  At first in the Old Testament Canaan is presented as a place of refuge, but after the cattleman cult overthrew the Asherah worshippers, who erected pillars (as the earliest patriarchs had done), the victorious cult felt it necessary to describe the land of Canaan as a place harboring enemies, and not as a place of refuge or a sanctuary, for the cult knew that the Canaanites were mainly vegetarians, and it would be contradictory for the cult practicing and profiting from animal sacrifices to regard the Canaanites as friends.

   Selig Hassan also affirmed that the term used to describe the Sphinx, Abul-Hol, meant bw Hwl. Bauval and Hancock then assert that the Harranian Hwl was translated as Hu.  Hu in Sanskrit refers to Jehovah [confirm at Cologne Digital Lexicon of Sanskrit and English on the web]. Jehovah is regarded word in ancient Hebrew as explained by James Strong in his Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary that accompanies his Concordance to the Old and New Testament.

3050: Yahh, yaw; contraction for 3068: Yehovah, the self-Existent and Eternal; Jehovah; Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord.

As we see from the above, Yahh or Jah is an abbreviated form of Jehovah. And one of the meanings of Jah in Sanskrit is teja-Simhat. This fact may also be confirmed also by consulting the Cologne Digital Lexicon of Sanskrit and English on the web.

One of the Definitions of Jah in Sanskrit is Teja-Simha

   Teja in Sanskrit means sharpness and refers to the claws of Simha, the man-lion who took vengeance on the proud king Asura Hiranyakashipu. Let me paraphrase the story as told on a number of web sites dealing with Krishna.

   The fact that Simha, or Narasimha, comes from inside the pillar is also
significant, both in the context of Hinduism and Egypt, for the pillar is associated especially with Shiva, who in Egypt was known as Seb, Lord of the Earth.  Seb is simply a shortened form of Seba or Saba, the names by which Shiva, or Sheba was addressed by Israelites, Ethiopians, and the inhabitants of Sheba or Seba, a nation named after Shiva.

  The Nara root in Narasimha means:  the primeval Man or eternal Spirit pervading the universe, which is always associated with Narayana, the son of the primeval man. In a later part of this study, which shows that originally Cain the son of Adam was revered and not reviled, we shall deal with this topic at greater length.
 

    Bauval and Hancock rightly assert that the Sphinx needs to be seen in context of its architectural surroundings.  They affirm also that it is known that the Sabeans visited the Gaza strip far back in history. The Sabeans we know erected pillars to Shiva, who is known in the Old Testament by various names, occasionally by Sheva, but more often by Seba, Sheba, or Saba. These were names by which Shiva was known to the original Jews and to the inhabitants in the land of Ethiopia, and in the land of Sheba, both of which were settled by the lineage of Noah.  In Egypt pillars were erected to Shu, the father of Seb, and then to Seb himself, the Lord of the Earth and the father of Osiris. Abraham, the original patriarch of Judaism, we know named one of his sons Shuah, after the father of Seb or Shiva.  And the fact that Abraham made his home for many years in Harran, land of the Sabeans worshipping Shiva, will make the objective reader question orthodox Judaism's assertion that Abraham condemned his father Terah as a believer in idols.  Certainly if Abraham would have rejected his father's Sabean religion, he would not have made his home in Harran, home of the Sabeans, nor would he have named his son Shuah after the sky god father of Seb. Neither would the Jews after Abraham have continued to named their children after Sheba, Shuah, Kannan, Rama, Asura (Asherah) Arauna, Bala, and Laksmi if they had truly rejected their Hindu origins.  Words like Jah and Jehovah and Jehudi, that play such an essential part of Jewish history, are all found in Sanskrit, which is not only the mother tongue of the Semitic languages, but the language of the mother Vedic culture that existed universally in the ancient world. [See the other pages of this web site.]
 

  The stelae, pillars, and pyramids which mark the Gizeh plateau are called mastebah.

  The memorial stone or heap of dirt or stones, part of which Jacob uses for a pillow, for example, is regarded as a sacred pillar, and in Hebrew is named masseba, sometimes masseva or matstsebah.  From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance to the Old and New Testament, "The Hebrew/Chaldee Dictionary:"

4676 matstsebah, something stationed, column, memorial stone, garrison, standing image, column, pillar.

The root Sebah is easily seen to refer to Seba or Shiva.

And the word for pillar relates to Matstsab, meaning a fixed spot, an office, a post, garrison.  The Sab root refers of course to Saba or Shiva.

  In Egyptian history the stelae and pyramids erected to their deity are called mastabah or mastabah in Arabic.  It is the same word as the word matsebah in ancient Hebrew. The reader should not be confused by the final t in matstabah. It is simply the hard local pronunciation of the double s.

5333 Netsiyb or netsib, something stationary, i.e. a prefect, a military post, a statue:--garrison, officer, pillar. From James Strong's Hebrew/Chaldee Dictionary.

From 5324, Natsab, a meaning of which is also pillar.

Sib is an abbreviated form of Seba, similar to Seb, the name of Seba in Egypt. Sib is a term used for Shiva to this day in some parts of India.
 

   I do not pretend to have solved the many mysteries of the Gizeh plateau, but simply to have discovered the deity that the Sphinx represents, Simha, the Man-lion incarnation of Vishnu or Krishna.  It is perhaps not so strange that so-called Egyptologists have blinded themselves to the fact that the pyramids were named after Seb, just as orthodox Jews have suppressed the fact that the pillars erected to their original God in Genesis were named after Seba, for it would show clearly for both parties that they have at worst lied about, and at best simply ignored the origins of their religion.
 

  Ausur, or Osiris, was named after or perhaps is the prototype of Asura of India, which was originally simply the name of the Almighty.  Only later did it come to mean demon.

1. When Seth fooled Osiris and locked him into a wooden chest, this referred to the suppression of the original way or religion and the scriptures that described it.

2. When Osiris' body was dismembered, this referred to the original scriptures being destroyed, or dismembered.  In Palestine this referred to the event of the cattleman cult overthrowing the vegetarian devotees of Asherah (Asura), and consequently rewriting the scriptures so that they would sanction such evils as animal sacrifices, slavery, male chauvinism, bigotry against homosexuals.  Since many of the ancient scriptures of Egypt refer to vegetarian offerings as well, we can see that the same deception occurred in Egypt.

3. Isis' search for the parts of Osiris' body is the search for the original true vegetarian religion, and by extension, its teachings (when written these would be the scriptures) that ruled not only Egypt, but the ancient world. Isis prophesied that one day organisms would exist that deserved to know the true way.

4. The fact that the culmination of Isis' search is the finding of the phallus of Osiris is a reference to the Shiva lingam, and to the worship of Shiva and the other deities in the pantheon.  The very names of the stelae, the pillars, and the pyramids show that they are simply forms of the Shiva Lingam erected to honor Shiva.

5. The vignettes that mark the walls of ancient Egypt that were collected in the Book of the Coming of Day, i.e., in Wallace Budge's words, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, are an allegory dealing with the vegetarianism and egalitarianism that were originally taught as the true and compassionate Way.

   So we see now why the Sabeans visited the Gizeh plateau in the remote days of antiquity, and why the Canaanites settled at the foot of the icon of their Deity Simha.
When the Vedic way was universal, as it is coming to be once more, wherever Shiva was worshipped, so too was their freedom to worship the other deities that we now associate with the Hindu pantheon, deities who were in fact worshipped throughout the ancient world.