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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 animal body does the sphinx repersent?
Sphinxes, from Egyptian mythology, are lions with the heads and sometimes foreparts of beautiful women.
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 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
