Thread: Can anyone help me decipher what this "sign" says? I found this "Tomb" in the cemetary... It may have an important message for me!


the lion
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The winged lion of Mark the Evangelist is the national emblem of Venice (detail from a painting by Vittore Carpaccio, 1516)





The Winged Lion has been used by The Holy Orders of Knighthood since the founding of the Holy Orders - both Citadel & other Holy Orders - to represent the Spirit of GOD as Christ is the Lion of Judah. The Winged Lion stands for strength, loyalty, courage, and righteousness in action from heaven. A super natural appearing of the power and authority of GOD. Lions have represented monarchs or rulers for centuries and the addition of wings adds the celestial or heavenly element to the authority.

Lions are brave and aggressive and the 'king of beasts', so using such symbolism adds a more vivid image of leadership against odds and trouble.

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The Winged Lion is also known as "Lamassu". Lamassu were depicted as hybrids, winged bulls or lions with the head of a human male. Like a sphinx or even a "Baphomet" because like the Baphomet it embodys two different forces in one, while a Baphomet includes animal and man, like the Lammassu, it also embodies male and female.
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The lamassu is a celestial being from Mesopotamian mythology. Human above the waist and a bull below the waist, it also has the horns and the ears of a bull. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art, sometimes with wings. The lamassu and shedu were household protective spirits of the common Babylonian people. Later during the Babylonian period they became the protectors of kings as well always placed at the entrance. Statues of the bull-man were often used as gatekeepers.[citation needed] The Akkadians associated the god Papsukkal with lamassu and the god Išum with shedu.

To protect houses, the lamassu were engraved in clay tablets, which were then buried under the door's threshold. They were often placed as a pair at the entrance of palaces. At the entrance of cities, they were sculpted in colossal size, and placed as a pair, one at each side of the door of the city, that generally had doors in the surrounding wall, each one looking towards one of the cardinal points. [link to en.wikipedia.org]