Thank you for all that Byrd. Gives me a great starting point for more exploring.

Circular, self-referencing, self-reinforcing logic that's utterly dependant on there being a lack of evidence at all to work effectively.

As good a description of current mainstream Archaeology as I've ever seen

@ Skyfloating ... Interesting subject, beautifully presented as always...

Have you noticed? It seems that when Manetho is writing about something that 'mainstreamers' consider as fitting their paradigm he is writing 'history'... and when he mentions something they can't fit into their paradigm it becomes 'myth'?

This is called having your archaeological cake and eating it

I saw this on AA at history channel.... the substance was "inconclusive" to the least.

When I see a sphinx, the meaning of it, for me, is that an animal gained conscience...

IMHO all these sculptures represent our relationship with the gods.... the "animals" (us) now
have a meaning.....(the head) at the same time, we can see depictions of animals with a
demon or cruel head.... this again to me seems like a warning of the curruption of conscience.

Hybrids, for me, is the superb, non-natural evolution to cro-magnon.... since the "bad" sphinxs
pictures comes even from summer, this was more an ancient philosofical debate over our
recent gained conscience.... The tale of Adammu from Sitchin 12th planet is the real hybrid.

A bad sphinx could be the representation of ego.... still animal afterall the intervention, a
complete deception to the gods... so you have all these sculptures of good and bad hybrids
living amongst the gods...

When the gods "departed", the sphinx loose the appeal in culture, because "we are alone".

Thanks for the thread! S+F

-Robert

The Original Post is a typical example of dishing stuff out while omitting the major /salient points.

The OP is about Serapis. But in the post, sky doesn't tell anything about the origin of Serapis. but goes to to tell a great deal about what Con Von Daniken has to tell or what another Con Hancock says. Both of them and many of their ilk, Omit the salient points to mould the matter into what they want it to be. exactly the same what is being done in the OP.

What or Who is Serapis??

I asked "What" since Serapis is a Construct of Man. Serapis was just a tool for Ptolemy I to bring together the Greek and Egyptian worshipers to one God, a god whom he could control.

Serapis was just that. A political Tool by a master schemer and ruler - Ptolemy I.

Now - Whats so Hybrid about Serapis?
Serpais was an amalgamation of Greek and Egyptian Gods and depicted as such.
There was no "Hybrid" indications in any of these depictions of Serapis.
The original post, once again was misleading the readers that serapis was depicted as something of a hybrid being, by posting images having wings and what not, but not at all connected with serapis.

Sky, to tell the truth, you have all the trappings of becoming a Psuedo-Whatever-ian. Why don't you apprentice with Daniken or Hancock or Childress. They would be proud to have such a prodigy as a student. Seriously.