The Mother-sphinx is one of the two mascots of Absalom, the other being the hippocampus. The sphinx is the older of the two, brought over by some of the first inhabitants migrating to Abslaom from Osirion. The Mother-sphinx almost always has the body of a lion, a female woman's torso and head and wings. She often has human-like hands, carries a scale and scepter, is sometimes shown a pregnant, holding a scroll or riding on the crest of a wave.