Despite being a place where " the raven uttered no cries " and " the lion killed not, the wolf snatched not the lamb, unknown was the kid-killing dog, unknown was the grain devouring boar ".

Apart from these, Vishnu is depicted in any of his ten avataras, which include Vishnu sitting on Anantha ( the celestial snake and keeper of life energy ), Vishnu with Lakshmi seated on his lap ( Lakshminarayana ), with the head of a lion disemboweling a demon on his lap ( Lakshminarasimha ), with head of a boar walking over a demon ( Varaha ), in the Krishna avatar ( as Venugopala or the cow herder playing the Venu ( flute ), dancing on the head of the snake Kaliya, lifting a hill such as Govardhana ), with his feet over head of a small figure ( Vamana ), with Lakshmi seated on Garuda, and the eagle ( stealing the parijata tree ).

Alcestis had so many suitors that Pelias set an apparently impossible task to the suitors — to win the hand of Alcestis, they must yoke a boar and a lion to a chariot.

It was declared she would marry the first man to yoke a lion and a boar ( or a bear in some cases ) to a chariot.

On hearing the noise, Adrastus hastened to them and separated the combatants, in whom he immediately recognised the two men that had been promised to him by an oracle as the future husbands of two of his daughters, for one bore on his shield the figure of a boar, and the other that of a lion, and the oracle was that one of his daughters was to marry a boar and the other a lion.

A skilled smith created the sword for Tydeus, which bore designs of a lion and a big boar.

A prophecy had told Adrastus to marry his daughters with the lion and the boar, and watching these two princes fighting like wild beasts he decided to keep them in Argos as sons-in-law.

Other statues that Lord Burlington had made for the gardens included a wolf, a boar, a goat, a lion and lioness, a statue of the Roman god Mercury, a gladiator, Hercules, and Cain and Abel.

They display scenes of hunting and sacrificing: ( north side, left to right ) hunt of a boar, sacrifice to Apollo, hunt of a lion, sacrifice to Hercules, ( south side, left to right ) departure for the hunt, sacrifice to Silvanus, hunt of a bear, sacrifice to Diana.

* Mundane Beasts — barracuda, bat, bears, birds of prey, other birds, boar, buffalo, camel, domestic cat, great cats ( cheetah, leopard, lion, smilodon, and tiger ), chimpanzee, giant clam, crocodile, deer, dinosaurs, dogs, dolphin, eel, elephant, gorilla, hippopotamus, horses, small mammals, rhinoceros, scorpion, sharks, snakes, spiders, animal swarms, swordfish, whales, and wolves.

Mammals include the mountain lion, coyote, deer, bobcat, wild boar and fox.

Although the technique is mainly associated with the tiger, dragon, snake, crane and leopard, many other animal styles have been developed, including panther, praying mantis ( northern and southern styles ), horse, cobra, bull, wolf, deer, bear, boar, eagle, python, scorpion, elephant, lion, frog, duck, dog, crow, tiger cub, chicken, hawk, turtle, swallow, lizard and a host of others.

She suffered starvation, since the calves will not act like lion cubs and wait somewhere while she hunts for food.

According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.

Sea lion whiskers worn in male ’ s ears represented a trophy, which meant he was a good hunter.

Although the lion had been dropped from the jersey, the players had worn the lion motif on their ties as they arrived in South Africa, which led the press and public referring to them as " the Lions ".

Extant felids belong to one of two subfamilies: Pantherinae ( which includes the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard ), and Felinae ( which includes the cougar, the cheetah, the lynxes, the ocelot, and the domestic cat ).

An extreme version of this trend can be seen in the Disney cartoon version, for example, which depicts John, voiced by Peter Ustinov, as a " cowardly, thumbsucking lion ".

The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbour seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.

It is this emphasis on becoming attentive to the social backdrop against which language is rendered intelligible that explains Wittgenstein's elliptical comment that " If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Arms of King Richard I adopted towards the end of his reign, a version of the lion emblems or recognizance used on the shield of his grandfather Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou ( d. 1151 ), which became fixed during his reign as the Royal Arms of England: Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or

Ise daikagura employs a large red Chinese type of lion head which can move its ears.

There were six steps to the throne, on which animals, all of gold, were arranged in the following order: on the first step a lion opposite an ox ; on the second, a wolf opposite a sheep ; on the third, a tiger opposite a camel ; on the fourth, an eagle opposite a peacock, on the fifth, a cat opposite a cock ; on the sixth, a sparrow-hawk opposite a dove.

The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.

They also variously include lion dances and dragon dances ; human-occupied puppets ( often of the " Seventh Lord " and " Eighth Lord "); tongji ( " spirit-medium ; shaman ") who cut their skin with knives ; Bajiajiang, which are Kungfu-practicing honor guards in demonic makeup ; and palanquins carrying god-images.

The story is told of the lion whose cubs are born dead and receive life when the old lion breathes upon them, and of the phœnix which burns itself to death and rises on the third day from the ashes ; both are taken as types of Christ.

An Islamist website posted a recording, in which bin Laden praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a " lion of Jihad ".

Wemics entered the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons in the accessory Monsters of Faerûn, which also introduced the mountain wemic: essentially the same build, but the lion portions replaced by those of a large cougar.

Major predators that feed on wildebeest include the lion, hyena, cheetah, leopard, and crocodile, which seem to favour the wildebeest.

While seeming absurd at first glance, considering that grass is neither white nor black, it is supposed to be effective against the zebra's main predator, the lion, which is color blind.

From this lion derived the later cave lion ( Panthera leo spelaea ), which appeared about 300, 000 years ago.

Nonetheless, they might carry genes, which are extinct in the wild and might be therefore important to maintain overall genetic variability of the lion.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

They tell you horses go crazy at the sight or smell of a bear or a lion, but these didn't.

The cow and the bear will graze ; their young ones will lie down together ; and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

" Examples of fantasy supernaturalism include magic ( spells, harm to opponents ), magical places ( Narnia, Oz, Middle Earth, Hogwarts ), supernatural creatures ( witches, vampires, orcs, trolls ), supernatural transportation ( flying broomsticks, ruby slippers, windows between worlds ), and shapeshifting ( beast into man, man into wolf or bear, lion into sheep ).

In the Theravada canon, Buddha did not make any comment discouraging them to eat meat ( except specific types, such as human, elephant, horse, dog, snake, lion, tiger, leopard, bear, and hyena flesh ) but he specifically refused to institute vegetarianism in his monastic code when a suggestion had been made.

The bear represented the shaman, the buffalo was the provider, the mountain lion was the warrior, and the wolf was the pathfinder.

" David declares that when a lion or bear came and attacked his father's sheep, he battled against it and killed it, Saul has been cowering in fear instead of rising up and attacking the threat to his sheep ( i. e. Israel ).

* Gordon Brown, depicted as a grumpy ruthless Scot and can be used to make any object ( bear, snail, lion, Stalin ) to represent him.

In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon, with the dragon supreme among them .< ref >* — " And the beast which I saw was like unto a < u > leopard </ u >, and his feet were as the feet of a < u > bear </ u >, and his mouth as the mouth of a < u > lion </ u >: and the < u > dragon </ u > gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

30 ) gives their names and forms from an Ophite diagram ; Michael in form as a lion, Suriel as an ox, Raphael as a dragon, Gabriel as an eagle, Thauthabaoth as a bear, Erataoth as a dog, Onoel or Thartharaoth as an ass.

The top of the walls is decorated with a fine frieze and other sumptuous fittings, including the fireplace between the windows and the fine doorway leading into the Hall of the Full Council, whose Corinthian columns bear a pediment surmounted by a marble sculpture showing the female figure of Venice resting on a lion and accompanied by allegories of Glory and Concord.

Wildlife ranges from black bear, mountain lion, and mule deer in the mountain and transition zones to the kangaroo rat and the endangered desert tortoise on the valley floor.

Caption from a 1911 English satirical magazine reads: " If we hadn't a thorough understanding, I ( British lion ) might almost be tempted to ask what you ( Russian bear ) are doing there with our little playfellow ( Persian cat ).

For instance, the passage, " As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him " ( Amos v. 19 ), the lion is said to represent Nebuchadnezzar, and the bear, equally ferocious if not equally courageous, is Belshazzar.

Bighorn sheep, bobcat, coyote, bear, jackrabbit, cottontail rabbit, mule deer, white-tailed deer, gray fox, mountain lion, river otter, porcupine, pronghorn, raccoon, armadillo, Mexican wolf, and gray wolf can be found in all states across the southwest.

The presence of fully articulated adult cave lion skeletons, deep in cave bear dens, indicates the lions may have occasionally entered dens to prey on hibernating cave bears, with some dying in the attempt.

( But in 1952, the Lord Lyon decided that the Earl of Lauderdale's right was to bear the saltire as the Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland, whereas the Earl of Dundee as the Bearer of the Royal Banner bears the Royal Standard of the lion rampant ).