It was a lion but a king ordered it's head to be the head of himself.
A sphinx is the body of a lion.
A cat A lion
The Great Sphinx has the body of a lion but the head of a Pharaoh.
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.
Body of a Lion
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
The famous statues are called the Sphinx. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large limestone statue of a reclining sphinx with a lion's body and a human head, thought to represent the pharaoh Khafre.
The Sphinx
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The mythical creature with a head like human and a body like a lion is called Sphinx. The Great Sphinx statue of Egypt is in Giza.
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.
The Sphinx is famous for having the head of a Pharoah and the body of a lion.