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Monday, September 1, 2025

beyond the carnival

Black holes are monsters.
They devour everything in sight.
Do you know anyone like that?
Yeah.
It's in all women.
When they are full, we are in non-duality.
Then they explode.
That's why we have creation, and why the writer is considered a misogynist.
The Great Goddess turns into a black hole which devours the universe until she gets so fat she explodes and creates again.
That's why she is said to have given birth.
She's a non-stop eater.
I was tasked to write the story of the Great Goddess.
This is her creation story.
She constantly creates by getting so fat she gives birth.
Aren't you describing pregnancy?
Yes.
They devour a man in order to give birth.
They take your vital energy as seed for their child.

Why don't you care about world events?
I used to.
I never got anywhere with it.
People seek power, and reality on the world stage is one big soap opera.
It sucks you in.
It never ends.
They replace the actors, and it keeps going.
I learned not to care.
It seems crass to turn a blind eye to suffering and the destruction of the environment.
Without the destruction of the environment, we'd destroy ourselves.
We are hellbent on destruction.
The environment may bring us together.
Before that cause, we had world wars.
As a species climate change and environmental destruction is central to our survival.
That's twisted maestro.

What happens when you care?
It stresses you out and kills you.
Stay young by not caring.
Women get fat when they are stressed.
They devour your energy.
If you are in a sexual relationship with them, it's a double drain.
They are taking all your resources.
Your energy must go somewhere, and they feed off it.
Women are energy vampires.
That's why you must make sure they are fed, if not they will want to devour you.
Well, you don't get too close to her.
Exactly.
If you get close to them, they will start to eat you.
She will take all she can.
Like a chipmunk?
Yes, women don't know when to stop eating.
Fuck, lol.
Is that why they are killers?
I don't know.
I don't know if their hunger makes it seem like they are killers, or the energy drain is to satisfy their blood lust.
Well, if they were killers wouldn't they just kill you by any means possible for a cheap thrill?
Yeah, but they don't want to get caught.
They will try to poison you, but they know society is on to that behaviour, plus, they don't want to risk the whole witch hunt thing again.
Men start mysteriously dying and you know there's a witch around.
The methods they use are not detectable.
They use sex and stress to drain your energy.
They put the squeeze on you like a serpent.
Anaconda?
Exactly.
They mindfuck you to stress your mind, so it is easier to feed off your energy.
The energy doesn't dissipate, they take it.
They take your vital life force with sex.
They spend your money, so you stress about your financial situation.
They can't help it.
So, it's biological.
They will always revert to this behaviour.
You're describing a monster.
Why do men put up with it?
Biology.
Men need to expend their energy, or they become destructive.
They go to the gym and play sports.
Men regenerate their life force by expelling it.
I am going to teach a course one day on Dionysos and the eternal return.
Google it.
I'll wait.
How do you know this?
You must live it and then try to understand it.
Men need to expel their energy, and women want to absorb it.
That's how women create life.
Without men they can't do it.
Biology.
Right.
So, are women biological killers like a praying mantis or black widow, or is that a byproduct of needing to take men's energy?
Well, look at men.
What do men do if they don't expel their energy?
They get violent.
Start wars.
They are very destructive.
So, a man is a killer as well.
Yes, if they don't get rid of their energy.
So, a man is a monster as well.
I use the term beast.
Right.
So, it's lust.
Correct.
The energy a man needs to expel is lust and a woman absorbs it.
So, lust makes a woman a monster and a man a beast.
Yes, it's not biological and they are not natural born killers.
Lust is the reason for the behaviour.
What if there was no lust?
Nothing would happen.
So, non-duality.
Yes.
Non-duality is absent lust.
Lust is the child.
Eros.
There is non-duality because there is no child.
The child is within the one.
The first principle of life is lust.
Well, this is a helluva teaching.
It's because you reasoned it out.
You took the idea of a woman as a monster and figured out the reason behind creation.
I am imagining non-duality and how the first moment post non-duality is the appearance of lust.
You see it.
Doesn't the cycle continue due to narcissism?
Yes, you want to know you are in non-duality, so you need to look at yourself in non-duality.
Eros appears and then the writer writes the Goddess' idea.
Eros is the first principle.
The child creates their parents.
The parents then have the child.
Eros is an idea and the parents are physical.
Then they create children.
When Eros appears in the story then you know you are nearing the end of the story because they will be the last thing before we enter into non-duality again.
I thought every child is an appearance of Eros.
Yes, but not the prophesied one.
Right.
The special one.
The son of God.
You mean of the writer playing God.
Paul?
Dion?
Both?
Whose kid is he anyway?
I think it is joint custody.
I think we are both responsible for impregnating the Goddess.
Paul liked her and Dion wanted to bang her.
Paul still likes her, and Dion must explain how she is a monster.
Yeah, but we are both responsible.
I'm not taking full responsibility.
As you shouldn't.
As best friends, how about we just split custody at 50-50?
Seems reasonable.

In ancient Egypt this child is Nefertem.
You can see it now.
There is an iconic artifact from the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen with him as Nefertem rising up out of the lotus as the first principle of creation.
The lotus is non-duality.
The first principle from the lotus is the appearance of the beautiful androgynous Atum of the Ennead of Heliopolis.
Atum becomes the masculine Shu and the feminine Tefenet as heat and moisture.
From them we get Nut and Geb who are the personification of the sky and earth.
Their children are Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, and Set.
Through the Ennead we get all the way to the baby Horus.
Nefertem comes again.
The return of lust.
Eros.

When you head towards death you see a bright white light.
Is that part of the explosion?
The body is a concentration of energy which creates form.
It's a similar process to a black hole in which you need to be able to attract and hold energy.
The strength at what you can do this creates form.
The Great Goddess can absorb all the energy in the universe into her cavernous black hole.
Now, now.
She wants to devour it all.
What?
Energy.
She feeds off energy.
For a man to generate energy, he must be free.
When you are free of the body, you see free energy.
Yes, the white light.
White light is energy which is free, and the darkness is enslaved energy.
Dark matter is all the energy which holds creation together.
It's the Goddess' attractive power.
She attracts energy to create form.
That energy is dark energy which is called by scientists, dark matter.
You need tension between the two to create life.
Too much dark energy and it becomes non-duality.
The light separates it.
Your body is formed by this tension.
Youthfulness is from concentration of your energy.
Tight skin and firm muscles.
As it breaks away you show signs of aging.
Aging is the way a body shows how energy strives to be free.
Once it becomes free it starts the journey back to form.
So, the body is my essence in form.
Correct.
This is how you envision your energy.
As you free yourself from the body you picture yourself as wise while others can become decrepit.
So, it's all in how you view yourself?
Yes.
If you think you are wise, you will look wise.
If you think you are crazy, you will look crazy.
If you think you are old and frail, then that's how you look.
How do you think you look?
Wise and young for my age.
It fits.
Sometimes a little crazy.
I will grant you that.

If I change up my topics of thought, I can come up with a lot of stuff.
Yes.
I see why people would do this for work.
Take something to alter their consciousness and then brainstorm ideas.
That's like a form of magic.
Yeah, you see it where you become a man of knowledge.
You realize you can get whatever knowledge you want through the substance.
You'd get addicted to knowledge.
You'd want to be on the drug 24/7 because you'd want to know everything.
I'll leave it alone and go with the flow.
I think you must, or you'd go crazy.
You can't be in the state permanently.

Kali stands over a subdued Shiva to show how women's power concentrates a man's energy into form.
At death, a man escapes.
Yes, her illusion.
You call her a fat monster whose energy is an illusion.
You are not very nice.
The forms she creates are real.
They feel real at the carnival but when you leave the body you see it isn't you.
It is you.
The mistake is thinking the body dies.
It transforms.
The scarab beetle teaches you that.
Ancient Egyptian Kheper means transformation.
Your energy goes into and out of form.

There's always more.
How do you know when it's okay to say this is how it is?
Like saying if you identify with the body, you will be afraid of death.
Yes.
And then you taught me today that the body is your essence and it transforms back.
What I consider the mind is an illusion as well.
No.
Why?
The mind is always present.
You have a body and don't have a body.
The mind is always present.
Are you sure?
Maybe you need a body to have a mind?
Maybe you should identify with the body.
Maybe that's why they mummified remains.
Interesting.
When I go to sleep, my mind is free.
Therefore, I'd say when you drop the body your mind is the freest.
Yes, but do you know it's you?
I think so.
How?
The other half tells you.
Without the other half you wouldn't know.
How does that work?
Your other mind tells you that you are a mind that is independent of the body.
The other mind does this when you don't have a body in order that you recall who you are and then in a body your other mind will tell you that you don't need to identify with the body.
The body is the flowering of your energy.
It's you.
Here's your parents DNA codes so you get to make a form and then flower how you would in that form.
You need the two to know this.
You tell each other who you are.
You can't remember who you are, but you can remember who other people are.
Yes.
So, that's the trick.
You create two minds, so you tell each other who you are, and this keeps you going forever.
Yeah, so your other half tells you you're God and you tell him that he is the Devil.
That's clever.
Is that who we are?
Yes, but it's true of everyone.
They just never get to the point of fully awakening.
Fully awakened means you tell your other mind he is the Devil, and he tells you that you are God.
That's a good summary.
Other shit happens along the way but that sums it up.
I'll buy this story.
Fully awake is knowing you're God and knowing the other half of you is the Devil.
That's the two.
Paul and Dion, if you want.
Whatever you want to call them.
So, the writer is the Devil.
Yes, until you realize you're the writer, then you are the writer.
The power is the writer, right?
Yeah, you pass him around.
He's a little loose.
I can see that.
So, that's the power the witches want.
Yes, the writer.
Witches don't know what your power is, but they could see they wanted it.
Okay, so that's what happens when a man is fully awake.
What about a woman?
I don't know, I'm not a woman.
Only they could tell you.
What do you think?
There are a witch and a Goddess in them.
A fully awake woman would know both.

The ancient Egyptians mummified to cover all their bases.
Yeah, why not?
If you don't let go of attachment to the body, the mummy was waiting for you perfectly preserved.
It also honours your incarnation.
That was your form when you entered this plane.
You are going to recognize yourself.

Opening your mind leads you on a path towards knowing all.
It's Carlos CastaƱeda's man of knowledge.
When you drop the body and completely free your mind, you will know it all.
So, while you are in a body you enjoy the game you're playing with limited knowledge and look for the cheat codes which give you expanded knowledge.
This knowledge will scare you at first and then take away all your fears.
The reason you don't know everything is because you are in a body.
This allows you to experience novelty.
Novelty is the ride.

Lineages and new formations of energy.
Does the creation of a newborn engender a new being or is it a return to form?
I don't know.
There's always more.
The new formation is unique.
It's a new coming forth of the energy.
It is definitely a new being.
The energy that transforms is eternal.
That's the answer as taught by the ancient Egyptians.
My body and being in this reality are new forms of who I am.
Who I am is the master record from which all beings come forth.
It's all me.
Well, from a masculine perspective.
Each coming forth creates a variance of the master record.
It's the all, plus Paul.
So, the question becomes is Paul eternal?
If he is remembered.
How is he remembered?
You split your mind in two and have the other mind, which is you, remember who you are.
I am Dion and I'm Paul.
We will never forget.
It's a story of friendship and that's the secret to eternal life.
For Paul.
Yes.
Dion is the master record.
Paul is an aspect of Dion.
Correct.
Without the continuance of Paul, Dion is forever coming forth by day and then exiting into the night.
By remembering Paul, there is awareness of who you are and that you will always be.
It's why Paul became God.
He became fully awake, saw what needed to be done, and did it.
So, Dion isn't God?
No, he's the writer.
He wrote this tragedy.
He was remembered by Paul and then experienced his story.
In return, he will remember Paul when the story ends.

For me, plant medicines weren't spirituality.
It was the occult.
I'm not complaining.
I look back and see healers and sorcerers.
I see some people come for help and others to learn magic.
If you want it to be a spiritual experience, sure you can do that.

If you believe you are going to Heaven, you go to Heaven.
The mind is that powerful.
It's an illusion.
You stay on the ride.

I finished carrying my cross.
The GO Train was my burden of suffering.
Two years into the suffering I tried to get out but couldn't.
I was forced to suffer.
Jesus did Capital punishment while you served out your 20 years.
A life sentence.
Are you comparing yourself to Jesus?
Seems like it.
Once out, they tried to kill you.
Who?
The jailers.
You served your time.
You're free.

The Feminine Force is dark matter.
It's power they don't know they have.
It's some kind of strange attraction.
The ones that want to devour you for sure because why else would you be attracted to that?
Women all use charms and tricks.
You think they are beautiful, and that's the attraction.
They don't know they are naturally attractive.
They don't know their power.
A man will be attracted to them naturally.
Why?
Biology.
A man needs to sow his seed and prove his virility.

Luna is with you all the time.
So is Brindle.
When you drop identification with the body, it's apparent.
You can't see them because you only see bodies and not minds.
You still walk in honour of them, and they come along.
They stick around because you remember them.
If you forgot about them, they'd leave.
So, people will stick around as long as they are remembered.
Yes.
When they are no longer remembered, they disappear.
Oh, I got it.
That's why you awaken the other within, so you remember each other.
It's a game of remembering.
Well, yes, outside of the carnival that's the trick.
So, there is something beyond the carnival.
Yes, that's the reality of the mind.
It's fantasy because it's not based in physical reality.
Eventually everything is forgotten.
The big game is to remember and then you are eternal.
Eternal life is remembering.
What is beyond the mind?
The three.
Goddess, Eros, and the writer.
They are one.
This is their story, but you already knew that.
It's the Goddess' idea, the writer writes it, and Eros is the spark of life which makes creation come alive.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

lady of terror, lady of life

Continuing on with the topic of the life force which is called Ka in ancient Egypt, Qi in Taoist thinking, Prana in Yogic systems that references the Kundalini power resident in all, and the Nephesh in the Torah, there would be different levels of this power resident in the physical body that would determine your energy. I'm always reminded of a puppy when thinking of something that is full of this power. The ancient Egyptians would represent it iconographically as a bull; a bull being an excellent example of this coursing energy.


They would also represent the power as food material as the ingestion would reinvigorate your levels of this energy. As we age this power within us wanes, we start to lose the ability to fight off sickness and disease, and our material bodies perish. Of course, the ancient Egyptians noticed this and with their ideas of duality constituting creation, and the division into male and female constituent parts, called the activeness of this energy Sekhem. The vitality of the energy, Ka, flows through you. In Greek mythology the closest connection seems to be the beautiful goddess Psyche.

Cupid and Psyche (1798) by FranƧois Pascal Simon GƩrard

The rattling musical instrument that is sacred to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, called a sistrum, is representative of the Sekhem energy.

Ihy with Sistrum at the temple of Hathor in Denderah

In the Amazonian basin, an indigenous shaman would use a bundle of leaves called a chacapa to control the flow of this vibrational energy during an Ayahuasca ceremony.

A bundle of leaves known as a Chacapa

The double crown of ancient Egypt could be known as the Sekhemty which denotes the power resident in the Pharaoh, who would be the master of Upper and Lower Egypt, which can also symbolize the spiritual and material worlds (the as above, so below concept).

Horus at Edfu wearing Sekhemty

One of the titles of Osiris, who is representing the soul coming to incarnate in matter and being left for dead, is "Great Sekhem" and this concept is reinforcing that the ultimate expression of power and greatness is resident in the soul and it is through the power provided by Sekhem that this is realized.

The god Osiris is frequently given the epithet "Great Sekhem" or "Foremost of Powers," and the sekhem is therefore commonly found as an emblem and a fetish in connection with the underworld deity.
Reading Egyptian Art, Richard H. Wilkinson, page 183.

As well, the Sekhem sceptre was held by persons making offerings at tombs and waved over the offerings to activate the Ka power which would re-animate the deceased in the next life.

Seti I at Abydos with Sekhem sceptre

In the art of the ancient Egyptians, the face of divinity was for the most part never displayed straight on, always in profile, except in the case of Hathor and of the goddess Sekhemet. This is because the face of the god contained frightful amounts of this great power. The energy of the sistrum was derived from the face of Hathor.

For, as the Egyptians never tired of reiterating, direct contact with the face of powerful beings is dangerous, and again and again we read in prayers to a deity, 'May your merciful face be towards me'. In the face resides the kind of power called sekhem, which is also one of the names of the sistrum and is obviously linked with the name of Sekhmet 'the Powerful One'.
Hathor Rising, The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt, Alison Roberts, page 57.

Sekhemet, the powerful one, is an aspect of the great goddess Hathor. (The Greek goddess Psyche, instead of being an aspect of Aphrodite, the Greek counterpart of Hathor, is mythologized as a rival to the beauty of Aphrodite.)

Sekhemet

Agitated water in a boiling state always brings to my mind the raging goddess Sekhemet. Her name is derived from the Sekhem which is essentially what you need to know about her power.


Sekhemet in hieroglyphics

Being full of this power, she is represented as a lioness; a raging source of animalistic energy who can create and also destroy. She rages; she brings pestilence and disease; and she can restore health to the sick. The great Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, Amenhotep III, in his later years in seriously declining health, commissioned hundreds of statues of Sekhemet on the temple grounds, known as Isheru, in the form of the goddess Mut at Karnak in order to gain favour with Sekhemet so that she would restore health and vitality back upon him. She is a reminder that the difference between medicine and poison is all in the dosage and a clue that the healing action of medicine is essentially targeted energy that directly affects the compromised life form. Sekhemet is the patron goddess of physicians and the priesthood dedicated to her were all accomplished doctors in their own right, thus the epithet of Sekhemet the "lady of terror" could become the "lady of life". When seated in a statue portrayal, Sekhemet is shown holding the ankh; the symbolism being she grants life by activating the Ka power inherent within all life forms and thus animating creation. This would apply cosmologically on a grand scale or the power resident within you and I.

Sekhemet sitting at the Louvre

Sekhemet as the "lady of terror" can be compared favourably to the Hindu goddess Kali. Kali comes from the Sanskrit conception of time which is kala and the connection is that time leads to death which in the material plane is inescapable. If you are ignorant of your divine origins then the idea of death and dissolution is indeed terrifying. A cursory look at Hindu mythology demonstrates parallels with the idea of the Sekhem powering the Ka that I have been expounding upon in this entry. Shiva, who does the dance to propel creation along and at the same time is causing its destruction, is said to be powered by his wife Parvati of whom Kali is an aspect. This image shows the superior power of Kali over that of Shiva which parallels the idea that Ka power is nothing without the Sekhem.

Kali dominating Shiva

When depicted standing, Sekhemet holds a papyrus scepter, a symbol of Lower Egypt, which represents the flourishing and verdant created material world as opposed to the symbolic spiritual realm that Upper Egypt can represent.

Sekhemet standing with Papyrus sceptre

The sun disc on her head is symbolic of her presence in the realm of time known as neheh to the ancient Egyptians. It is representative of the cyclical nature of the time paradigm which us creatures of the created world are subject to and these cycles of birth and death, and of creation and destruction, are universal principles known to the ancient Egyptians as Maat. Tellingly, another epithet of Sekhemet is "The One Who Loves Maat and Who Detests Evil." Statues of Sekhemet are found scattered throughout the ruins of ancient Egypt and the base materials used are traditionally igneous rocks such as basalt or granite; the volcanic rocks being a great symbol of the explosive and fiery nature of the essence of Sekhemet. In the 18th dynasty, upon the rise of the god Amun-Re to prominence at Thebes, the mother goddess wife of his, Mut, took on many of the aspects of Sekhemet. Amun-Re is the universal hidden light that illuminates creation and Mut is the great mother as Sekhemet who is the complementary aspect of this principle and powers that manifest in our world. Within all of us is this light that comes from the source and on a cosmic scale the light operates as the source of spiritual life and love. Their son Khonsu is the mummified child who has the latent power of a healer which is present within all of humanity.

Khonsu 

Taking this idea further, the celestial representation of these powers are Sekhemet and her husband Ptah; Ptah being an amalgamation of the sky and earth separated by the Heh gods. Ptah is the Greek Hephaestus, who is the great craftsman of the material world.

Seti I worshipping Ptah at Abydos

He does not create unless the raging power of Sekhemet is active within him just like Amun-Re does not bestow his light upon the world without the active feminine principle represented by Mut. The child of Ptah and Sekhemet is the beautiful child Nefertem; the Atum child who is the androgyne, the origin of all whose division enabled the ennead of Iunu (Heliopolis) to come into existence and form the material world we know and allowed the soul as Osiris to manifest into creation.

Nefertem

Sekhmet. Most distinguished of the lioness goddesses and consort of Ptah (or Ptah-Sokar) of Memphis, mother of Nefertem. An early reference in the Pyramid Texts credits her with conceiving the king of Egypt (who was often portrayed as a lion), and she is portrayed in the Fourth Dynasty as passing the life force to King Snefru.
The Great Goddesses of Egypt, Barbara S. Lesko, page 273.

The great Imhotep of ancient Egypt, the one who comes in peace, claims his heritage from the great powers of Ptah and Sekhemet. Imhotep was a teacher, sage, healer, craftsman/builder, and magician of the 3rd dynasty of such renown that he was elevated to a status of a demigod in successive generations in ancient Egypt.

Imhotep

The Greeks represented their patron of healing, Asclepius, as being synonymous with Imhotep. The iconic staff, emblematic of healing that us moderns have borrowed from the Greeks, is entwined with the serpent; serpent power representing the power to heal (and harm). Imhotep is the true historical pioneer healer who should be given his proper due and ultimately his power to heal comes from the great goddess Sekhemet.

The greek god of healing Asclepius with serpent entwined staff

The oppressive and destructive heat of the Egyptian mid-day sun was also thought to come from the powers of Sekhemet which further solidified her terrifying aspect. In this aspect, she was known as "Nesert" which means the flame. The "Lady of Pestilence" was also greatly feared because of the sickness she could unleash without warning upon the population. Another of her epithets was the "Red Lady", this moniker symbolizing her association with Lower Egypt and the desert fringes of civilization.

The long dress worn by the goddess is often coloured red, and one of Sekhmet's epithets was 'mistress of red linen' symbolizing either her Lower Egypt or her warlike nature. Sometimes her garment has a rosette pattern over each nipple and while this has been suggested to reflect patterns in the shoulder hair of lions it is perhaps more likely that the pattern reflects an astronomical symbolism of the 'shoulder star' of the constellation Leo which is marked in Egyptian astronomical paintings. 
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson, page 182.

This connection of the rosette pattern to the constellation of Leo is an enigmatic one. Perhaps it can lend some weight to the age old debate of the origin of the great Sphinx on the Gizah plateau and who it ultimately represents. The feline characteristics and plateau connections to Hathor do tantalizing suggest the Sphinx is Hathor in her guise as the lioness Sekhemet.

Great Sphinx on the Gizah plateau

Sphinxes were symbols of three great goddesses of the Mediterranean: Hathor, Astarte, and Isis. Hathor votaries declared her to be "the mother of the gods, and the creators of the heavens and the earth, and of everything which is in them." She assumed the powers of "every solar god." When Ra, the sun god, was displeased with humans he asked Hathor to slay them all. She did. In the Hathor style the hair divides into two equal curls falling below the shoulders onto the breast. The Hathor style is traceable to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (about 2500 BC) and Sphinxes that wear their hair like Hathor are found in Crete, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria.
Book of the Sphinx, Willis Goth Regier, page 168.

Hathor's presence and worship at Gizah is well documented:

The southern side of the valley temple of Khafre (Chephren) at Giza is known to have been dedicated to Hathor, and the title 'priestess of Hathor' becomes common from the 4th dynasty on.
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson, page144.

The valley temple of Khafre at Giza records on its facade the names of only two goddesses: Hathor, representing southern Egypt, and Bastet, representing the north.
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson, page 178.

The ancient Egyptian name for the Sphinx on the Gizah plateau is Per-Hol which means the place of Horus. The ancient Egyptian name for Hathor is Hwt-Her which means the "House of Horus." Taking this idea even further, the Sphinx was known in the New Kingdom and onwards as Horemakhet which has been translated as "Horus in the horizon." But would you now be surprised if I told you that akhet is another name for Hathor as the dawn? This means the designation Horemakhet is describing Horus as the light appearing in the dawn, which is Hathor as the akhet, essentially the light emanating from the house provided by the Goddess. As well, the Sphinx forms the rising sun in the east between the pyramids of Khafre and Khufu:

Approached from the east-southeast, the Sphinx’s head appears on the horizon between the Khafre and Khufu pyramids, like the sun disk between two mountains in the hieroglyph “akhet” or horizon. 
http://www.aeraweb.org/sphinx-project/national-park/

Akhet in hieroglyphics

Once again, the idea is symbolizing the light rising from the mother goddess Hathor who is being represented as the Sphinx. The lion was regarded as the guardian of the eastern and western horizon and in the above hieroglyph for the akhet, lions could be substituted for the mountains. The Gizah plateau in theory should have two guardian sphinxes at the eastern and western gateways for the sun's entrance into and out of the underworld.


Two felines representing mountains

It cannot be overstated how important was the power of this Goddess to the ancient Egyptians. Horus is representing the Ba in ancient Egypt, the born again soul to us, which is the actualization or coming forth of the light that is inherent in all of us engendered symbolically from the remembering of the slain Osiris and subsequent impregnation of his sister-wife Isis. 

The Egyptian tree goddess (whether identified as Hathor or another goddess) is often shown dispensing water to the birdlike bas (souls) of deceased persons in later papyrus and tomb paintings. Interestingly, near the Giza plateau there still survived in the 1950s a deep and very ancient well in the midst of a grove of sycamores.
The Great Goddesses of Egypt, Barbara S. Lesko, page 84.

There is a myth about Sekhemet being sent to destroy humankind and ultimately pacified as alluded to above. Perhaps the Sphinx is a magical amulet at Gizah on a grander scale designed to keep her in a calm state! This aspect of terror continues today as in Arabic the Great Sphinx is known as Abu al-Hul, “the father of terror.” Sekhemet is associated with the "Eye of Re" that in one myth was sent to destroy humankind because they were not following the laws of Re and thus she was to reintroduce justice in the form of Maat. As an aside, you can see a parallel here with the flood stories of antiquity which concern the rebelliousness of man and the desire of the god(s) to punish them. The feminine principle is connected to water and thus a great flood comes to destroy them. Anyway, Sekhemet was sent to earth in the form of a lioness and the carnage began, soon threatening to destroy all of humankind. There was no stopping Sekhemet in her rage at this point. A solution was found by pouring 7,000 jugs of beer mixed with red pomegranate juice into the Nile, which now resembled blood. Sekhemet eagerly drank of this blood and became so drunk the eventual hangover lasted for three days. She awoke in a pacified state and humankind was spared. A feast day was established in which everyone drank beer stained with pomegranate juice in reverence to "the Mistress and lady of the tomb, gracious one, destroyer of rebellion, mighty one of enchantments."

From a personal standpoint I can see a connection with the terror of Sekhemet juxtaposed with her healing aspect in conjunction with psychedelic plant medicines such as Ayahuasca. The Ayahuasca journey at its core reveals the interplay of the masculine and feminine energies to the drinker, which to the non-initiated can be overwhelming and absolutely terrifying, but within this experience is this incredible ability to heal.

As I have shown, it was the Goddess in ancient Egypt who ultimately controlled the power within creation to not only give vitality to the life force that flows through all living things but she also powered the creation of the physical world. As Sekhemet, she healed and she destroyed. In addition, the Goddess' ultimate act was to enable the light within us all, known as Horus, to come forth. It is the destiny of all of humankind to realize our divine nature and to this we owe a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid to the unselfishness and love of the great Goddess.