Thutmose IV and the Dream Stele of the Sphinx
While a young prince, Thutmose IV fell asleep in the shade of the buried Great Sphinx after a long hunt. The sun god Horemakhet appeared to him in a dream, promising him the throne of Egypt if he would clear away the suffocating desert sands. Thutmose fulfilled the task, became Pharaoh, and commemorated the divine bargain by erecting the Dream Stele between the monument's paws.