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Lions

Species of big cat

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  • The god Apollo holding his bow and an arrow. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • Narasimha disembowelling Hiranyakasipu in front of his son and attendants. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • A man in a white bathrobe sits against the legs of a man dressed in a jacket and shirt with the head of a roaring lion to the left and the message to 'Live wild. Safe sex'; advertising the AIDS Information Line in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by Hans Verschuuren for the Stuurgroep AIDSpreventie Homo's, 1991.
  • Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
  • A lion walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A cardinal singing a lullaby to a lion; representing an attempt by France to maintain the neutrality of the Netherlands in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Engraving after Bernetto, 1740.

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    A dialogue between the proud horse, the tame lion, and Crab the master's cudgel, as they lay together one night in a stable near Mentz in Germany: with some historical particulars. Written by the lion himself, and printed in the Westminster Journal of Nov

    Lion | Date: [1743]

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Hindu mythology
Hindu goddesses
Animals in the Bible
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