Zitat des Tages über Sphinx:
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.
