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The sphinx faces east due to the rise of the sun. The sphinx was the Egyptian hand of a 25920 year clock that we call precession of the earth (aka the zodiac). Therefore the sphinx is always facing the zodiac constellation every platonic month of aprox. 2160 years representing the ages.

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