Giza Sphinx legend

Is a feature of ancient Egyptian civilization, specifically the Old
The different views represented in this statue

 
Opinion that he represents the old Pharaoh Khafre combines the strength of the lion and the wisdom of the human

 
In fact, the statue was carved during the reign of Khafre, but he represents the sun god
  The proof of this temple, which faces the statue where it was being a religious ritual - Poplar or Acht

 
This has been a firm belief in the minds of Egyptians throughout their history where they saw a statue of Lah - Poplar or sister - and Kano worship him and live his paintings

Among the most famous of these paintings that of King Tuthmosis IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty, known as QWERTY dream

 
As for the name of the Sphinx and the linguistic derivation of him because it seems that the origin of the modern state where people descended from the Canaanites to the Giza area and saw the statue, which represents the god Hur, and they associate with the God they have a
Horona - a character who in turn - Horn - and then the name to this letter -

 
Hall - where the base substitution between distraction and ha in Arabic
As for the word it seems Abu perversion of the ancient Egyptian word Bo, which means a place in this case, yes the name, place of God, Poplar, while the ancient Greeks to reproduce their own version of that object female

 
She also appeared creatures Michahph ideas in several other cultures, including South East Asia, and occupied the Sphinx place in the art of decoration of the European Renaissance