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Winged Lions

  • Daniel had a vision of a winged lion rising from the Great Sea which has been taken to represent King Nebuchadnezzar and his rapid lion-like conquests over many nations (Dan 7:4).
  • Various:

  • Winged lion with ram’s head and griffin’s hind legs, enameled tile frieze from the palace of Darius I at Susa, c. 510 bce; in the Louvre, Paris.

  • Nenfro statue of a winged lion Etruscan, ca. 550 BC.

    Several statues of this type, made from nenfro, a kind of volcanic stone used extensively at Vulci, depict winged lions and sphinxes. These were set up to protect the entrances to subterranean chamber tombs covered by a tumulus (earthen mound).[1]

  • Winged Lion Stone art in Venice.

    The winged lion is an emblem of St. Mark the Evangelist because his gospel is the one which focuses on Christ's royalty and resurrection. It is also the symbol of Venice, the city under St. Mark's protection.

  • Winged lion of judah at Saint Mary's Studley Royal Sanctuary

  • See previous

  • Masonic:

  • The Boule - an African-American masonic society founded in 1904.

  • Corporate:

Sphinx

  • Various notes:
    • Sphinx: A legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head of a man, sometimes depicted with wings.
  • See Occult symbolism:Egyptian
  • In Ancient Egypt, mythological beast, represented as a lying lion with the head of a man. Deviations to this exist, with the head of a ram, hawk or falcon. In the mortuary temple of Amenemhet 3 in Thebes, the sphinx even had the tail of a crocodile. The word is from the Greek meaning "strangler" but it may have its origin in the Egyptian "shesep ankh" meaning "living image". The Egyptian sphinx was associated with both the king and the sun-god and represents the rising and setting sun, rebirth, and resurrection.[12]
  • The Sphinx composed of a man's head and chest, eagle's wings, a bull's hindquarters, and a lions' forequarters became symbols of the Biblical tetramorph and the four living creatures of Revelation (Ezek 1:5-14; Rev. 4:6-8). These in turn represent the cherubim; the four Evangelists and their Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the four kings of the created world - the lion (king of the jungle), the eagle (king of the air), the bull (king of the farm), and man (king of creation); and, according to St. Jerome, Christ's Incarnation (the man), His Passion (the bull), His Resurrection (the Lion), and His Ascension (the eagle).[13]

  • The Great Sphinx at Giza, created about 2600 B.C., measures approximately 66 feet high and 240 feet long and bears the image of Khafre (Chephren) whose nearby pyramid was built at the same time. It faced the Nile river and the rising sun where a sun temple once stood in front of this statue to receive offerings.

  • Crocodile sphinx at kom el-Hetan

  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: king beforea god on a throne with bulls'legs,above human-headed bulls, Old Syrian; 1820-1730 B.C.Syria [2]

  • Ivory pyxis (jewel box) from a tomb at Thebes, Mycenaean period, 13th century BC. [3]

  • Plaque with sphinxes, 9th–8th century b.c.; Neo-Assyrian period; Syrian style Arslan Tash [4]

  • The Greek Sphinx, Sphiggein [5]

    Famous for the The Riddle of the Sphinx

  • Hadrian. 117-138 AD. Bronze drachm, 23.13g. Alexandria, Year 18 = 133/4 AD. Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: Winged Sphinx with human head and body of lioness sitting left, kalathos on head, placing right front paw on wheel, L - I - H across field. [6]

Griffin

  • Various notes:
    • Griffin: A legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.
  • Ancient:

  • Hittites: Apotropaic figures - Two winged griffins carrying the firmament, Mythological scene, The Herald Wall’s reliefs Carchemish (Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara) [7]

  • Gold ring representing a cult scene,1500 - 1400 BC Athens National Museum. [8]

  • Scarab The main motif is the Phoenician sacred tree, composed of cup-spirals, palmettes and buds with two winged griffins rampant, heads turned back. [9]

  • Decoration from ivory cosmetics box from tomb at Athens of fourteenth c. BC. Winged griffins hunting deer; two small lions are crouched near the top, seen from above. [10]

  • Griffin bas-relief, from Picardy, ca 1260 (Musée de Picardie, Amiens)

  • Golden Cup depicting Griffin on top band. Excavated at Marlik. First half of first millennium BC.

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