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The word sphinx comes from the Greek Σφίγξ, associated by folk etymology with the verb σφίγγειν (sphíngēn), meaning "to squeeze", "to tighten up". [5] [6] [7] This name may be derived from the fact that lions kill their prey by strangulation, biting the throat of prey and holding them down until they die.
Seiya and Shun arrive at the Second Prison and find a court where they are attacked by Balron René. Kanon, with his Gemini Cloth, saves Seiya and Shun, and they stay in the Second Prison to fight against Rhadamanthys' soldiers. In the Third Prison Seiya and Shun confront Sphinx Pharaoh, but they are suddenly hit by the Silver Saint Lyra ...
Pegasus Seiya (天馬星座 （ ぺガサス ） の星矢, Pegasasu no Seiya) is the Bronze Saint of Pegasus in the 20th century and titular character of the series. An orphaned child later revealed to be one of Mitsumasa Kido's sons, he was separated from his sister Seika and sent to Greece to become a Saint, a soldier of the goddess Athena.
Djedefre (also known as Djedefra and Radjedef; died c. 2558 BC) was an ancient Egyptian king of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom.He is well known by the Hellenized form of his name Rhatoisēs (Ῥατοίσης) by Manetho.
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
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Saint Seiya (Japanese: 聖闘士星矢 （ セイントセイヤ ）, Hepburn: Seinto Seiya), also known as Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac or simply Knights of the Zodiac (translated from the French title Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque), [5] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada.
The Bronze Sphinx of Thutmose III, showing Pharaoh reclining on the Nine Bows.The front of the statuette uses the lapwing Rekhyt bird to say: "all the people give praise", using the hieroglyphs, nb, for all, the lapwing, for the people, and the star, for praising; (this is a rebus).