This is a question I like to ask people and one that I ponder all the time.
Is the LION the most culturally important animal on earth?
Think about it for a while or go through your home and count how many lions images you can find.
I did it the other day just fixing myself a sandwich and I found at least 5 in the cupboard alone. They were on sauce bottles, coats of arms, boxes of matches and......my personal favourite.......Lion Lager!
When we came down from the trees we met LION and our relationship has been unbroken ever since.
On cave walls in France we see them, guarding ancient gates at the Imperial palace, football and cricket teams are named after them, the lion of Judah, the sphinx, Peugot vehicles, etc etc etc
Where we live the lion was said to bring rain and if you heard one calling from a particular area that meant a bumper harvest, our local chief told me recently that it was taboo to kill a lion when he was a child.
It is my intention to count as many lion symbols, statues and images as I see during the London marathon and I will publish the results on this blog afterwards. Try it yourself today...you will be amazed!
I have even heard of a drive to get the lion listed as a World Heritage species because it means so much in our history, our present and our future.
Brent
Is the LION the most culturally important animal on earth?
Think about it for a while or go through your home and count how many lions images you can find.
I did it the other day just fixing myself a sandwich and I found at least 5 in the cupboard alone. They were on sauce bottles, coats of arms, boxes of matches and......my personal favourite.......Lion Lager!
When we came down from the trees we met LION and our relationship has been unbroken ever since.
On cave walls in France we see them, guarding ancient gates at the Imperial palace, football and cricket teams are named after them, the lion of Judah, the sphinx, Peugot vehicles, etc etc etc
Where we live the lion was said to bring rain and if you heard one calling from a particular area that meant a bumper harvest, our local chief told me recently that it was taboo to kill a lion when he was a child.
It is my intention to count as many lion symbols, statues and images as I see during the London marathon and I will publish the results on this blog afterwards. Try it yourself today...you will be amazed!
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| A much younger me after much "Lion tracking" in London! |
I have even heard of a drive to get the lion listed as a World Heritage species because it means so much in our history, our present and our future.
Brent
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