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“What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?” This is the riddle of the Sphinx.  To answer it, you must first know yourself.  If you answer wrongly, she devours you. Identity issues are her favorite snack!

Regarded as the guardian of civilization for the Egyptians and the one who puts a man into question with her riddle in several ancient Greek plays and myths, the Sphinx is a timeless and powerful symbolic figure. She is an ancient symbol of equilibrium and justice, one with a dual nature: her beautiful female body has the paws and tail of a lion that represent the power of the earth, and the wings of an eagle that signify the air and spirit. This dualism brings us back to questioning ourselves, as individuals and as a society. We must strive to keep in balance these two natures we all possess: our materialism and power and then our idealism and compassion. She symbolizes the highest longing of mankind – to raise itself above its lower animal nature to its highest potential and spirit.