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Man with head of hawk or of lion. Ram with head of lion, hawk or sphinx. Although the sphinx in the classic world is usually a feminine entity, in Egypt it served to represent an eminently masculine god. The sphinx had in Egypt diverse appearances: body of lion with human head, with head of ram or with head of hawk. All these representations are intimately related to Ra. Under the aspect of the feline with human head it tries to congregate, in only one divine entity, the force and the potency of the lion with the intelligence of the man, resembling with the king and with the sun in the morning.Harmajis is " Horus that is in the ajet ", the name that was given to the sphinx. The ajti are two regions that separate the day sky of the nocturne. In an ajet the sun descends to the Duat, in other, appears at the dawn. In these places the solar light has a characteristic: it evolves gradually. Although the divine figure of the sphinx is very previous, the worship to a deity named Harmajis does not seem to exist before 1150 B.C...
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