The Cosmic War Joseph P Farrell

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5. The Two Sphinxes of Ra, and the Two Eyes of Horus

As noted above, Ra is associated with the Sphinx. However, as Rux states, there are problems with that association:

Ra was specifically mentioned in Egyptian stelae as erecting a Sphinx in his own image in a “protected place,” i.e., a place of pyramids. Until the discoveries of the Viking probe, we had nothing but Giza to equate that to. But the Cairo Sphinx does not look like Ra, who was depicted as a hawk - the Cydonia Sphinx on Mars does. The very name of this Sphinx is given as Ra-Harakhte: “Falcon of the Horizon.” More to the point, Ra was said to wear a diadem on his forehead...

(This is sounding familiar!)

...from which he could fire a bolt to kill his enemies - the Cydonia Sphinx appears to have exactly such an item sculpted on its forehead.⁵²⁶

But why refer to the Cydonia Face as a Sphinx at all?

Alternative researchers George J. Hass and William R. Saunders, in their remarkable and provocative book The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Mars, summarize the history of Richard Hoagland’s, and his associate, Dr. Mark Carlotto’s identification of the Cydonia face as a Sphinx in the following manner:

In 1984, Hoagland proclaimed the “Face on Mars” to be the embodiment of a Martian Sphinx, where the face was half humanoid and half feline. The profound implication of Hoagland’s claims was that an identical fusion of two specific combinations of humanoid and feline features exists on massive structures on two different worlds: Earth and Mars. Using computer enhancements of NASA’s Viking Frame 70A13 by Dr. Mark Carlotto, Hoagland produced a mirror split of the “Face.” He was astonished with the results and quickly adopted the title of Martian Sphinx in reference to the “Face.”⁵²⁷

We can perform this experiment ourselves.

First, the Viking frame 70A13:

Then, Carlotto’s computer enhancement:

Carlotto’s Enhanced Image of Viking Frame 70A 13.

If one now pauses and recalls Rux’s comments, it would appear that there are three, and not just two, types of forms being morphed into this fascinating figure, for clearly, while the left and right sides each have their own peculiar humanoid and feline characteristics, as we shall see in a moment, their overall combination could be loosely construed as ornithological, or bird-like. The author can only add that his own personal reaction, when he first saw this image, was one of fright and fear. In short, my reaction to this face is that it conveys a malevolent intention, an intention that will, I believe, become more apparent with the later images.

In any case, Hoagland correctly identified the humanoid and feline aspects of this Martian Sphinx.

And Hoagland’s humanoid aspect is no less apparent:

The above image, in my opinion, is not the countenance or visage of “love, harmony, and peace”; it is most decidedly not Disneyworld “jonquils and daisies.”

But then came the images from the Mars Orbital Camera, in 1998, and it appeared as if the whole Martian Face-Sphinx controversy would die down, for as nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Art Bell quipped, the image looked like a cat’s litter box, and the name stuck. The image became “The Catbox Image:”

But careful scrutiny of the image will show face-like features. The question then became whether this image preserved the peculiar double morphology of a Sphinx. If so, then it was, once again, an artificial structure, albeit one in great decay. Haas and Saunders set out to do just that.

This time, much to the chagrin of “it’s just a mesa” proponents, the flipping of the image, after computer rectification to provide an overhead view that could be flipped, was nothing less than astounding, as Haas and Saunders point out.

1998 Mars MOC Image, Flipped for Feline Component

If anything, the improved optics of the 1998 Mars Orbital Camera only enhanced, rather than overturned, Hoagland’s original Sphinx hypothesis, providing a confirmation of it. The resemblance of the image to a head-on image of an African male lion is all too apparent and palpable.

But what of the humanoid component?

Here the results were even more astounding, for not only was the humanoid component confirmed, but Rux’s additional comment that the “headdress” of the Face appeared to show a diadem or jewel of some sort, as associated with Ra’s “eye”, appeared to be confirmed in no uncertain terms, a fact made all the more remarkable in that Rux wrote his comments in 1996, fully two years before the image was even captured by the satellite’s camera!

1998 Mars MOC Picture, Humanoid Aspect with Clearly Visible Diadem

Ra then, is associated with two Sphinxes, one on Earth, and the other, paradoxically, on Mars.

But there is still more.

Rux again points the way to yet more Mars-Earth connections by stating that

On the painted papyrus of Queen Nejmet in the Egyptian Department of the British Museum is a red planet to the right, surmounted by Harpokrates, the young Horus - it is called “The Red Eye of Horus.” Horus is sometimes referred to as having “two red eyes” or “two blue eyes”, or as having one red eye with the other blue. Ra’s “right eye” and “left eye” being used to refer to the Sun and Moon respectively, and “Thoth’s eye” used to refer to the Moon, we know that “eyes” are sometimes used by the ancient Egyptians to refer to planets. Horus lost one of his eyes in battle with Set during the civil wars, having it restored to him by the magic of Thoth....it is not unreasonable to assume ...that Horus’ blue eye would of course be the blue planet, Earth. As reasonably, his red eye would be Mars.⁵²⁸

In other words, Earth and Mars describe two parts of an interplanetary relationship — a civilization.

But Rux then notes a disturbing aspect to this use of “eyes” to mean planets: “An ‘eye’ also can represent a weapon and/or a ship, as has been demonstrated.”⁵²⁹ Moreover, if viewed as a ship, and if one “enters the vehicle which is ‘the eye of Horus,’ it powers up, and one goes from the blue to the red — more specifically, in the typical dual meaning of ancient sacred puns, from his ‘blue eye’ to his ‘red eye,’ or from Earth to Mars.”⁵³⁰ Indeed, if this “ship” were based on any sort of field propulsion, its ionization of the atmosphere would first start on the blue end of the electromagnetic spectrum and as the “ship” swiftly receded from its point of origin, its radiation would undergo the classic Doppler phase shift, from blue to red.

Such a trip is related to the Egyptian concept of the Tuat or Duat, which, since it contains neither water nor air, and is “an unfathomable abyss... dark with the blackest darkness” wherein a man can wander, and in which there is no life, is space itself.⁵³¹ At this point, notes Rux, a journey through the Tuat “not only involves one Sphinx - it involves two.”⁵³²

A double sphinx (Aker)⁵³³ can be seen depicted in the Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead, being either two sphinxes back to back with a solar disk between them, or else a single body with one head gazing eternally east (as ours does at Cairo), and the other gazing eternally west...it is referred to as the “Great God who opens the Gates of Earth.”⁵³⁴

The Pa-Ra-Emheb Stele, moreover, refers precisely to “Ra’s building of the Sphinx in his image amid a ‘protected place in the Sacred Desert’ with a ‘hidden name,’ the place of the ‘King of the Gods’ in the ‘secret underworld’.” Additionally, this stele also mentions “the extension of cords and a crossing of the sky to the subterranean world where secret things are made.“⁵³⁵ And as if that were not enough, Rux states that Wallis Budge himself wrote in 1934 that

Mars... was called Hor-Tesher, the “Red Horus,” He was said “to journey backwards in traveling,” and he was also known as “Harakhti,” “Horus of the Two Horizons.” The God of this planet was Ra; he had the head of a hawk with a star above it.” The Cydonia Sphinx of Mars is to all appearances exactly that: the head of a hawk with a star above it, the star (diadem) containing a stylized human face.⁵³⁶

Consequently we have the following relationships:

• The association of Mars with Ra;

• Ra’s association with two sphinxes;

• The existence of the Sphinx at Giza, which may be associated with Ra through the use of red paints on its beard;

• The apparent existence of a sphinx or chimerical Face on Mars, depicting both humanoid and feline aspects in its two halves, and an ornithological or bird-like quality when viewed as a whole, which is associated with Ra’s depiction as the “Falcon of the Horizon;

• The use of the term “eye” to refer not only to planets, as with the red and blue eyes of Horus referring to Mars and Earth respectively, but also to refer to weapons, as with the Eye of Ra, which is used by Sekhmet to destroy all life on earth in a fiery conflagration;

• The association of Ra’s “eye” with his diadem, which parallels the lapis exilis or “stone of power” of Lucifer in the Christian tradition,⁵³⁷ and the evident presence of just such a diadem in the “humanoid” version of the 1998 Mars Orbital Camera’s imaging of the Martian Sphinx;

• The apparent association of Ra, as a sun-god, not only with light, but apparently with crystals, as with the stone or “eye” of his diadem;

• The association of mankind, of Adam, with the ”red earth“, i.e., the Red Planet of Mars; and, from chapter two,

• The association of Mars with the “scarred warrior” of some ancient mythological motifs, a scarring quite visibly demonstrated in the massive scar of the Valles Marineris.
And last, but surely not least,

• The clear association of Mars with warfare.

These associations allow us to hypothesize both who was involved in this paleoancient war, and where it was fought, for these associations indicate that the warfare referred to in ancient Sumerian and Egyptian texts was interplanetary - cosmic — in nature, and involved at the minimum, both Mars and Earth, and their “gods.” And we have now yet another variation on our now familiar formula:

Mountains ≈ Celestial Bodies ≈ Pyramids ≈ Eyes ≈ Weapons.

Perhaps, in the light of this formula, it is not surprising that the Martian Sphinx should likewise be near a “protected compound” of pyramids, the most massive of which is the celebrated five-sided D & M Pyramid! We would, however, be remiss if we did not take note of the other players...

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