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Lord Homonculous

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Correction on Criosphinx
« on: June 04, 2006, 08:11:10 pm »
The entry on Criosphinx has not what I'd call an "error" in it... but it does go a little far afield of the origin of the name. Of course, it's a Sphinx because of the riddling, and the story with oedipus is spot-on. But the bit about crio meaning "I create" is not relevent.

The Criosphinx in Egyptian mythology is simply a ram-headed sphinx (the classic Sphinx, such as the one at Giza, are human-headed). Criosphinxes are associated with the Egyptian god Amun, and are most famously depicted in a row of sphinx statues guarding the route between Luxor Temple and Karnak.

The Crio- in Criosphinx comes from Greek -- Krios means Ram.  :)

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Re: Correction on Criosphinx
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2006, 10:11:34 pm »
Thanks. Let's see how long it takes for someone to fix this.

http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Criosphinx.html

We should probably start adding citations to our entries too.

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Re: Correction on Criosphinx
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2006, 10:27:10 pm »
Yeah, it's fixed. I just wonder how the Japanese got "Ginger X" for the name.