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Sphinx

Beings · Myth & story

A mixed creature of human and beast form. Egyptian guardian images and the Greek riddling roadside being are separate meetings.

Hellenic religion

  • Sphinx appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias reports the Theban sphinx in Greek travel narrative — the roadside riddling being of Boeotia. Hellenic story-topography, not Egyptian guardian monuments.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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