sphinx英文

The sphinx was originated from the ancient Egyptian mythology, originally described as a long winged monster, usually for males. There are three kinds of the legend sphinx - lion face Androsphinx, sheep head lion Criosphinx holy (Oman), the gryphon Hieracosphinx body. The assyrians and persians described the sphinx is a winged bulls, long face, beard, wearing a crown. In Greek mythology, it is a female sphinx evil thing in the world, representing the punishment of god. "Sphinx" comes from the Greek "Sphiggein", which means "tension", because the greeks Sphinx as a monster will grab people to death.In Greek mythology, Hera sent sphinx sitting in thebe city, near the cliff stopped passing pedestrians, taught riddle asked them in Muse, guess miss will be eaten by it, the riddle is: "what animal walked on four legs in the morning, walk with two legs at noon and three legs in the evening walk? Leg up, it was he who walk the slowest, the strength of the weak." The bottom pass guessed the right answer, the answer is "man". Sphinx miserable shame, cliff and die (Monday is killed by the bottom pass). According to the Apollo loos more records, the sphinx is urban cascades that with her son born to a two-headed dog autor phil hughes. Sphinx face symbol of the wisdom and knowledge.In adornment art of Europe, the sphinx as the Renaissance and received a great deal of attention. Then, close to the ancient Egyptian sphinx image transfer into each other cultures, although different because of the different description of image and obtain the different development in different cultural traditions.