Breaking the nose

Throughout Egyptian history, a strange phenomenon was found in many of the royal statues, which broke the nose. It was the highlight of the statue of the Sphinx. During artillery training, they broke it, but it is a funny and incorrect story. There is an oil painting showing the Sphinx without a nose drawn by the Danish naval commander Frederick Lewis Norden before the birth of Napoleon centuries ago. Norden drew his drawings for the Sphinx in 1737 and published it in 1755 in his book “A Journey to Egypt and Nubia ”Napoleon was thus innocent from the blood of this nose, however.

The phenomenon of broken noses is so widespread that it causes you to wonder whether all this resulted from accidents, breaking down what was discovered or time factors, or is there an evil reason. Still, it became clear in most cases that it is the last. Noses of these statues were broken because many ancient Egyptians believed that the statues possessed energy For life because it was customary to perform the ceremony on the statues, including the “ritual opening of the mouth”, where the statue is painted with oils and attached to it various things that were believed to send

In this life, these rituals gave the statue a kind of life and strength in the knowledge of the other. The belief that statues had widespread life energy pushed opponents to discourage that power when needed; for example, people were likely involved in the demolition and theft or desecration of temples and other holy sites. These statues have life energy.

It hurts the intruders in some way. Perhaps people thought that the hieroglyphs had the same power or other forms of animals or people. One way of destroying the life force of the deceased was to stiffen the nose to deprive the deceased of breathing and inhale the life in the other world. However, in some cases, opponents did not stop at the nose only Some people smashed or destroyed the face, arms, and legs to suppress the life force and also steal the Koranic eye grafted to deprive the deceased of an acquaintance with the ka any of the consort in the other world and thus deprived of appearing. There are likely some cases in which the statues occurred naturally. Then the nose protruding from the statue was broken. As a result, So it is also possible that erosion factors such as wind and rain eroded the noses of some statues. Still, you can usually tell if the nose was intentionally destroyed by looking at the cutting marks on the statue.