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About a month ago I saw a white-lined sphinx moth in my yard. Today I found this sphinx moth caterpillar eating the leaves of evening primrose in the same spot. I put a quarter next to it to show the size.
The Great Sphinx of Giza (or, commonly, the Sphinx) is a statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 6 metres (20 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom in the reign of the pharaoh Khafra (c. 2558–2532 BC).
SPHINX STYLE
Lugar: Piramides de Giza - El Cairo - Egipto.
Cámara: Canon EOS Kiss X5.
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Pine sphinx, presumably Lapara coniferarum. Found at a light, I put it on a chip of pine bark to show the camouflage. They are very passive moths during the day.
-BugGuide account--Lapara coniferarum
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Shot with Nikon D700 and 24-70mm F2.8 Nikkor © Craig Richardson 2010. All rights reserved.
Kogaionon was the semi-mythical holy mountain of the Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in an underground cave for three years. Strabo claims that a river with the same name flowed in the vicinity.
One modern translation of Kogaionon is "sacred mountain", which would be connected to a probable Dacian word kaga meaning "sacred", attested in two early 2nd century inscriptions from Tomis.
Kogaionon's (test) localization is still under debate, but thought to be either in the area around the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa (there is a 2291m summit there called Gugu and there are speculations that it could be the holy mountain; it may also have been Dealul Grădiştei where the ruins of the sanctuaries of Sarmizegetusa are located) or even the Ceahlău mountain.
Since the time when people cared about these things, there have been 10 structures that have been, at one time or another, the tallest structure in London. This photo is #8 - Crystal Palace transmitting station. It is 219m tall and was the tallest structure from 1950 to 1991. It is the main TV transmitter for London and was built among the ruins of the Crystal Palace, a cast-iron and plate-glass building originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the exhibition, the building was rebuilt and stood here from 1854 until it was destroyed by fire in 1936. The sphinx is on the terrace that used to support the Crystal Palace.
Sphinx ligustri
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This fellow just walked in one day and refused to leave. Not that anyone wanted him to leave.
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E' soltanto uno spuntone di roccia modellato dalle intemperie. Si trova a Siracusa, in località "Terrauzza" e quando l'ho scoperto per caso, circa trentanni fa, mi sono chiesto perplesso se non somigliasse realmente alla sfinge di Giza. Quella naturalmente è tuttaltra cosa, ma con un po' di fantasia la suggestione è la stessa.
Sphinx ovelook traffic cruising south on Stonewall Street in Greenville. The Stringer Mortuary put the Sphinx in place when the building was built in 1925.
Le sphinx de Gizeh (appelé par les Arabes أبو الهول Abou al-Hôl, « père de la terreur ») est la statue thérianthrope qui se dresse devant les grandes pyramides du plateau de Gizeh, en amont du delta du Nil, dans la Basse-Égypte. Sculpture monumentale monolithique la plus grande du monde2 (73,5 mètres de long, 14 mètres de large et 20,22 mètres de haut), elle représente un sphinx couchant.
It looks like the Sphinx is carrying the pyramid on its back. ...Uhh, it's not, OK? No Sphinxes were harmed in the taking of these photographs.
Sphinx statue, with Birmingham Town Hall behind, in Birmingham's Victoria Square.
Taken on 6th July 2021.
The great Sphinx at Giza. Believed to have been constructed by pharoah Khafre about 2520 BC. Showing sphinx from the rear view.
It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 19.3 metres (63 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the pharaoh Khafra (c. 2558–2532 BC)
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Hyles lineata, White-lined Sphinx Moth also known as a Hummingbird Moth. This was on my hanging basket of petunias outside of my business.
A sculpture by Fernando Botero at the University of Oklahoma.
I took this with a Polaroid 450 with 669 film that expired in December 2007.
From the literature, available at the site:
The Sphinx is the best-known sculpture in Gilgal Garden. It is also, Child wrote "the basis of thought or inspiration for all that is built around it." The contrast of the unhewn stones arranged to suggest a crouching animal with the finely carved face of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith makes this a remarkable piece.
Child carefully selected the huge quartzite stones to form the Sphinx's body and hired sculptor Maurice Brooks to create the face using an oxyacetylene torch.
The Sphinx represents Child's belief that the answers to life's great questions cannot be discovered with the intellect, but only through faith.
The Sphinx is an ancient symbol of riddles and mystery. Joseph Smith's face symbolizes Child's conviction that the LDS Priesthood reveals to mankind the answers to life's mysteries.