#the sphinx

[weirdlookindog]

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - The Sphinx, 1920

[thefugitivesaint]

Astor Bonder, 'Oedipus and the Sphinx', 2021

[archaeoart]

The Sphinx and pyramids at Giza, Egypt, circa 1881.

[diana-andraste]

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story, "The Sphinx". Published in Amazing Stories, The Magazine of Scientifiction, 1926.

"…I perceived the huge jaws at the extremity of the proboscis suddenly expand themselves, and from there proceeded a sound so loud and so expressive of woe that it struck upon my nerves like a knell … and I fell at once, fainting, to the floor."

[lilystargazerwhite]

Newhu and my old sphinx!

[candlemouse]

happy Valentine’s Day !!! <333

(and thank u to @carolinelikesdinner for letting me use their art!!)

[elena-fishr]

[jpriest85-blog]

I recently learned Apollo has a connection to the Sphinx, in some myths the infamous Sphinx of Thebes learned to tell riddles from the muses, & Sphinx statues are often used to decorate temples & grave markers, like the Sphinx of Naxos in Delphi. So I doodled a little comic of @messymoonmad Leodes praying to Apollo for a sign about Odysseus fate. Unfortunatly Apollo is busy post God games tending to an injured Athena, so my Sphinx shows up instead. She does give Leodes what he prayed for via cryptic riddles, as well as terrorising & toying with him for her own amusment. She is a big cat after all & she needed the enrichment. She gets bored in the underworld.

Leodes, praying: Lord Apollo I beesech you to give me a sign if the king is alive or dead. The queen's suitors are getting impateient & while I understand her reluctance to marry any of them...her heart still hopes for his return.

(A dark figure appears looming ominously behind Leodes)

Sphinx: I'm afraid Apollo is busy at the moment, so I've come in his place.

Leodes, jumping back in fear: AAAHHH!

Sphinx, in amusment: Oh~it's been so long since I've seen fear on a young man's face.

Leodes: Who? What...are you the sign I prayed for, or an omen of death?

Sphinx: My aren't you a clever little toy? Let's play some games it'd bring me such joy! Instead of a divine advisor, you'll find answers in the riddles you decipher.

Leodes: ...are you going to kill me if I guess wrong?

Sphinx: Do not look so alarmed, I am long dead I will cause you no harm.

[grimmyindigo]

"So, this is your choice? The greatest worth your eyes descried?"

If y'all know the Sphinx from Dragon's Dogma 2, I basically had to draw Gabriel from The Mandela Catalogue doing her iconic head tilt and face

[aliciavance4228]

The only way I can tolerate THAT one rationalization that makes the Sphinx Cadmus' wife is by headcanoning that Harmonia was just as cruel and malevolent as Cadmus, helped him murder her own brother Drakon and then frightened the Sphinx so horribly that she flew away due to her jealousy. If you're going to depict Cadmus as blood-thirsty and merciless then make Harmonia match her man's freak.

[birdhaslostit]

Sometimes I have an incredible brainwave

[betomad]

The Sphinx at Tobu World Square theme park, Nikko, Japan. Falsely shared with the story line “Snow on sphinx for the first time in 112 years, Egypt” in December 2013.

[pineapplezdrawsometimes]

The minute I saw this woman I was absolutely entranced, enthralled, etc…

[carolinelikesdinner]

The Sphinx. Shockingly I think this might actually be the first time I've drawn him