This is a creature with a lion's torso and a horse's lower body. Usually male.
The sphinx is not a dog. It is a lion body with a human head. Like a centaur but with a lion body, not horse.
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Unicorns have a horse's body with a horn on their head. Hippogriffs usually have a horse's body and the rest is an eagle's head and wings. Chimera is a lion with 3 heads 1 dragon head 1 lion head and 1 goat head also it has a snake tail and sometimes it hads dragon wings sphinx is a zoomorphic mythological figure which is depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head.
It's a Hippogriff and one of the legendary creatures. Sean
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An echidna-headed lion.
The centaur - the body of a horse and head of a man. The harpy - body of a vulture and head of a woman. The satyr - body of goat and head of man The minotaur - body of a man and head of a bull The chimaera - part lion, part goat and part serpent The pegasus - a winged horse The hydra - a many headed dragon. The medusa - a woman's body with hair of snakes.
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.
Unicorns have a horse's body with a horn on their head. Hippogriffs usually have a horse's body and the rest is an eagle's head and wings. The Chimera, from Greek mythology, was a female monster with a goats body, the head of a male lion, and a tail ending in a serpents head. The term chimera is also used to describe a creature consisting of the parts of incongruous creatures.
body of lion head of man
The body of a griffin is that of a lion and the head is that of an eagle.
The sphinx