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The lion and sun motif is based largely on astronomical configurations, and the ancient zodiacal sign of the sun in the house of Leo. Lion and sun is a symbol of royalty in Iranian flag and coins. Goddess Anahita was sometimes shown standing on a lion. Lion is also title of the fourth grade of mithraism. [6]
The four lions have also been thought to be the cardinal directions as if roaring the Buddha's message to the remotest parts. [33] A later Buddhist text, the Maha-Sihanada Sutta ( Great Discourse on the Lions' Roar ), pointedly links the wheel and lion with its refrain, "[the Buddha] roars his lion’s roar in the assemblies, and sets rolling ...
The Lion underwent careful restoration work in the 1990s. [9] Restorers believe its body is roughly 2,300 years old. [10] There are also lions carved in relief on the façade of the Doge's Palace, and at the Scuola Grande di San Marco [10] A common theme in venetian art, it was also present in armoury worn by noblemen. [11] [12]
The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were killed in 1792 during the French Revolution , when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris .
Lion Leopardé ... is a French term for what the English call a Lion passant gardant. The word leopard is always made use of by the French heralds to express in their language, a lion full-faced, or gardant. Thus, when a lion is placed on an escutcheon in that attitude which we call rampant gardant, the French blazon it a Lion Leopardé.
Painting of a lion hunt in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix, 1855, in the Hermitage Museum. The lion also appeared frequently in early Egyptian art and literature. [45] Statues and statuettes of lions found at Hierakonpolis and Koptos in Upper Egypt date to the Early Dynastic Period. [46] The early Egyptian deity Mehit was depicted with a lion head ...
The Merlion (/ ˈ m ɜːr ˌ l aɪ ə n /) is the official mascot of Singapore.It is depicted as a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.Being of prominent symbolic nature to Singapore and Singaporeans in general, it is widely used to represent both the city state and its people in sports teams, advertising, branding, tourism and as a national personification.
A six line hieroglyphic inscription begins to the right of this figure, which runs all the way to the lion's tail and continues in a Boustrophedon style over the entire body of the lion and the flat space between its legs. The text breaks off between the front legs at the beginning of a seventh line; it is assumed that the text continued on ...