…Thus associated with the sun, the lion was deified in Egypt as the sphinx, a creature with a human face and a lion's body, and in Assyria as a winged lion, both of which became symbols of power and wisdom. These deifications were adopted by Christianity and used in representations such as Daniel's tetramorph (see Daniel, chapter 7). In the Middle Ages, the lion also came to be a symbol of Christ himself. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "tetramorph" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…こうして太陽と関連づけられたライオンは,エジプトでは人面でライオンの体をもつスフィンクス,アッシリアでは有翼のライオンとして神格化され,いずれも力と知恵の象徴となった。これらの神格化はキリスト教にとり入れられてダニエルのテトラモルフtetramorph(《ダニエル書》7章参照)のような表象に用いられた。 中世になるとライオンはキリスト自身の象徴とされるようにもなる。… ※「tetramorph」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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