The Kingdom of Lions: The Lion as a God or Monster
The Dragon is a composite of reptile, lion claws, wings and fiery breath.
Manticore
The Manticore is a medieval heraldric beast. It has the body of a lion, the head of a man (sometimes of a lion) with many rows of teeth, a scorpion's tail and a flutelike voice.
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Narasingha (Narasimha)
The man-lion, the fourth incarnation or Avatar of Vishnu, in which the Hindu god appears as a lion, to tear to pieces the man who, for his piety to the gods, had been granted universal dominion.
Yali
The Yali is a creature in an Indian legend, with the body of a lion and the trunk and tusks of an elephant.
Pard
The Pard is not a lion-like creature, but it mates with the lion, producing the leopard.
Barong
Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion (or tiger) in Balinese mythology.
Singa
Although a dragon, the Singa appears in the shape of a lion in myths of the Batak-people in the mountains of northern Sumatra in Indonesia.
Dedun
Dedun (Dedwen) is the Egyptian/Nubian god of wealth and incense. It is depicted as a lion sometimes, but more often as a human.
Imdugud
Imdugud is the thunderbird of the Sumerian god Enki (Lord of the Soil / God of Water). Imdugud is the South Wind and carries the rain on its back. It has the body of a bird and the head of a lion, whose roar is the thunder.
Chnubis
Chnubis is a Roman god with Greek and Egyptian elements. He is depicted as a snake with the head of a lion.
Mahes
Mahes is the Egyptian personification of the heat in summer and is shown as a lion or a man with a lion�s head. 'Lord of the massacre' he was also called. People living in the Nile Delta area are the prime worshippers of this god. In Greece he was known as Miysis.
Sakhmet (Sekhmet)
Sakhmet is a very powerful goddess of war and vengeance from ancient Egypt, worshipped in Memphis and Luxor. She has the body of a woman and the head of a lioness. She brought diseases and plagues but also healed them.
Menhit
Menhit is an Egyptian lion-goddess and a goddess of war, the wife of Chnum and with a son called Hike. Those three gods were worshipped as a triad by the inhabitants of the ancient Egypt city of Latopolis (today: Esna/Isna). Menhit means 'she who slaughters'.
Arensnuphis
The Egyptian god Arensnuphis is depicted as a lion or as a man with a plumed crown. In Philae there was a temple devoted to him.
Ningirsu
Ningirsu is the god of rain, fertility and irrigation in Sumer and Babylon. He is depicted as an eagle with a lion's head. In the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu a temple was devoted to Ningirsu.
Pazuzu
Pazuzu is an ancient demon from Mesopotamia consisting of the wings of an eagle, the claws of a lion, the tail of a scorpion and a deformed head. He is the personification of disease-bringing storms from the south-east.
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