…but the Sphynx
commissioned herself.
The Sphynx is older than the Pyramids.
Will we ever really get to a point where we can say, “Yes, this happened here, that happened there, and nothing was before it?”
I don’t think so.
Humans are too unpredictable.
And too many Shaman are also Tricksters,
too many Tricksters are also Shaman.
(And boy, it’s easy to be a Trickster when you’ve got several thousand years of Time messing about with all of your records. Nevertheless):
Tricksters are sometimes born, sometimes made,
and sometimes just wake up;
and the Sphynx
commissioned herself; she must have had some reason for hanging out in this peculiar place.
I hadn’t intended so become a Shaman, but Isaac insisted.
And I listen to Isaac. So if you don’t want me to have the name, I’m sorry.
Someone who outranks me gave me that name.
Tricks make Tricksters.
Shaman are tricky either way.
But the Sphynx…
…commissioned herself.
Throughout most of her modern history, she was thought to be of the same strange provenance as the Great Pyramids. She’s certainly conveniently close enough.
But she is far older than they.
The Pharaohs commissioned the Pyramids.
But they only pretend to have commissioned the Sphynx.
(For the Sphynx…
…had another face, before the Pyramids rose.)
Who knows the Sphynx?
The Sphynx commissioned herself.
They gave her the head of a lion;
“Was she made for Anubis?
But the Sphynx is sacred to Horus.
To whom did she belong?”
We don’t know.
Perhaps she never belonged to anyone;
perhaps, like you, she just never belonged.
It doesn’t matter to her.
For the Sphynx,
the Sphynx commissioned herself.
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