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The question states: ...head of a lion and the body of a man.
In India, Narasimha is depicted with a human body and the head of a lion.
The Sphinx in Egypt has the body of a lion and the head of a human.

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I was told the Sphinx meets those specificaitons.

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Some ancient sphinxes i think according to ancient Egyptian scripts used to look like this and if you got the riddles they set you wrong they would eat you because of their lion part

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The answer is the sphinx

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It isn't nothing. It is the Sphinx.

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a Greek version of a sphinx

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Lion-headed horse.

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The Great Sphinx.

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A sphinx.

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Sphinx

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