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The Egyptian Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of a human. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a demon with a form like a winged lion with a woman's head, though sometimes she was depicted with a lion's paws, claws and breasts of a lion, a serpent's tail and the wings of an eagle. The Greek Sphinx was intelligent and terrorized an entrance to the city of Thebes, refusing passage - killing people - unless her riddle was solved. The hero odepius answear the question and the sphinx killed itself
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What monster has the head of a woman and the body of a lion?
The Sphinx
What does the Greek word Sphinx mean?
A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion.
What was the role of the Sphinx in Greek mythology?
The Sphinx was a very famous icon, especially in Greek mythology. The Sphinx is known as a female monster which has the body of a lion, the head of a woman, eagle wings and serpent tale. The role of the Sphinx was to reign terror on a town.
What was the monster with a human head and lion's body that gave riddles to travelers in greek mythology?
Sphinx
Why was Amenhotep iii created into a sphinx?
because he was really a woman trapped in a mans body. including the fire crotch
A sphinx is the body of what animal?
A sphinx is the body of a lion.
What animal is the great sphinx?
A sphinx is an Ancient Egyptian statue (only one, I believe), where it has the head of a woman, body of a lion, and wings of an eagle.
What is the Egyptian animal monument with a human head?
The Sphynx. It has the body of a lion, head of a human, and loves riddles.
What animal body does the sphinx repersent?
Sphinxes, from Egyptian mythology, are lions with the heads and sometimes foreparts of beautiful women.
What makes up a animal?
One sphinx is an Egyptian desert statue of a hybrid creature. It has a leonine body and the head of another creature -- typically, human.
What was the sphinx?
The Sphinx is an ancient Egyptian statue with the body of a cat and the head of a human. It was built for the sun god Ra.
What was the name of the creature sculpted in stone that has the body of a lion and the head of a human?
The ancient Egyptian beast with the body of a lion and head of a man is called the Sphinx.
Who was a Sphinx?
Sphinx is a fictitious being in the ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology. It had a lion's body and a human head. In the Greek tradition Sphinx had a woman's head and breast.
What is the imaginary Egyptian beast with the head of a man and the body of a lion called?
The ancient Egyptian Sphinx has the head of a man and the body of a lion. Also, in Egyptian mythology, there is a creature called the Anubite that is half of a man and half of a jackal.
What animal body dose the sphinx represent?
The body represents the body of a feline.
What animal body does the sphninx represent?
The body of a Sphinx is that of a lion. The head is that of a man.
A sphinx has what body of animal?
It haves a lion body to be the defender of the egyptians piramids
