The head of the Sphinx statue represents the king and is usually worn by the Mongoose, the royal headdress and the cobra alive in the middle of the head. The Sphinx of Egypt was the image of the sun god. Also the Sphinx used to be a sacred rendering of one of their pharaohs. From the picture of sphinx the sphinx represents the power of the lion (the body) and the wisdom of the man (the head "the mind"). And I believe the ancient Egyptians were trying to deliver a massage to the world by designing the statue half human and half lion and I think this massage still unknown. The Sphinx is definitely old, definitely a mystery. There have been lots of assertions and conjectures about what it represents and why it was built. And that’s why sphinx
