Talk:Lion-man

message: How's it the " oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art" 
Sorry please take this down. If I start giving you 10000 examples of more older animal shaped cultures and figurative arts we have in India ,that itself will take years.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:900A:1C0A:1457:7463:38A4:21B0:C82 (talk) 17:10, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

message: A month ago more parts of the lion-human figure were found. Archaeologists now say the figure is 35,000 to 40,000 years old!
http://www.swr.de/swr4/bw/regional/schwaben/-/id=259568/nid=259568/did=7920218/1tp2tvh/index.html (in German) 178.201.23.62 (talk) 23:55, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Even older 

message: This looked like a typo to me, but if "presence deity" actually means something, maybe someone can explain it more clearly. Peboki (talk) 17:57, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  presence deity 

message: I note the article has the following text: "The sculpture shares certain similarities with French cave wall paintings, which also show hybrid creatures." - can anyone provide references for this? Thank you  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.144.126 (talk) 10:05, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Palaeolithic hybrids 

message: I don't get why the Indian deity N. is listed under "see also". There's no connection other than the lion head. There are other human-lion hybrids in art/religion/myth/stories around the world. If this is really interesting to anyone, perhaps there should be an article that lists all those human-lion figures and that links to the Hohlenstein lion-man, Narashima, Sekhmet, and the others.Big Bene (talk) 08:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narashima 

message: Shamans do not pretend they are shamans. Shamans do not pretend they are humans wearing an animal mask. The mask is part of what they are. This head depicts a Lion-god and not a Lion-man!
:If you want to change the article or the name, you must find reliable sources - academic ones- that user your preferred name and demonstrate that the usage you prefer is more common, see WP:COMMONAME. Doug Weller talk 12:42, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The oldest known European God 

message: I do not read any discussion about this hypothesis.
Cheers
Renebach (talk) 17:08, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: One of many theories. Johnbod (talk) 18:32, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I understand that this is a representation of a medicine man/woman 

message: There is an interesting article in Current World Archaeology, issue 100, 19 March 2020.   
Elle Clifford and Paul Bahn argue that the ‘Lion Man’ in fact represents a bear, and may have been made as a child’s toy.        Sweet6970 (talk) 10:27, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article in ''Current World Archaeology'' 

message: To revise in this article: the statement that this is "the oldest-known uncontested example of figurative art" -- the mural in the Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst (in Sulawesi, Indonesia) dates to c. 43,900 years ago. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:18, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Wording slightly revised. Sweet6970 (talk) 14:03, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: To revise