Man-lion. Man with lion's head

Motif

Man-lion. Man with lion's head.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Beast-men. · view the constellation · filed as B27

Attested across traditions

Ancient EgyptianThe Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter CXXV (2) receipt
“we must here think of a single god with a lion’s head, as in such pictures as _Wilkinson_”
Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 5 receipt
“‘Terror, a male figure with a lion’s head, is depicted on Agamemnon’s shield.” uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Greek*Grote I 7
JewishNeuman
general Chauvin VII 87 No. 373bis n. 3.

Within the index

Filed under Beast-men. Combinations of bestial and human form.

Filed beside it

Army of half-animals, half-men Beast-men in the lower world Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse Man-ass. Body of man, hoofs of ass Man-bull Satyr. Combination of man and goat Man-dog Man-tiger Man-elephant. Man with elephant's head Other combinations of beast and man

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