Lionman

The Lion man is a lion-headed ivory sculpture which is one of the oldest known sculptures in the world (the oldest human-animal sculpture). It is about 30 centimeters high. Its pieces were found in 1939 in a cave in the Swabian Alb, Germany. Due to the beginning of the second world war, it was forgotten and only rediscovered 30 years later. In 1997/98 it was reassembled and restorated. It was determined to be about 32,000 years old. It was originally classified as a male, later as female.

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Narasimha (Sanskrit नरसिंह) (other spellings are Narasingh, Narasinga) is an avatara of Vishnu described in the Puranas, Upanishads and other ancient religious texts of Hinduism, and one of Hinduism’s most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium. He is often visualized as one who takes the form of half-man/half-lion, having a human-like torso and a lower body, but with a lion-like face and claws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha