The Papyrus of Dama Heroub
Egypt, 21st Dynasty.
The Double Lion symbolizes:
- Guardians of a gate
- Guardians of knowledge
- “Yesterday and today”
- Guardian of the Sun during the Sun’s death and rebirth cycles
According to Le role et le sens du lion dans l’Egypte ancienne (Leiden, 1951):
“His powers are mysterious” … “in him lie the deepest mysteries” … “he has concealed his forms” … “[he is] the one full of mystery, who is not known” … “[the lion is] that which brings about the resurrection of the sun” … “The double lion, the two horizons, the two world mountains, are different images symbolizing the crossing from life to death, from day to night and vice versa. They are the guardians, the gates, the threshold to the Beyond”
According to Number and Time: Reflections Leading Toward a Unification of Depth Psychology and Physics:
Page 93: “The double lion Routi is the divine principle which, recreating itself in death, rising up from the dead. Psychologically this lion symbolizes psychic energy, in its latent unconscious condition, and its reappearance on the threshold of consciousness. Whenever a latent unconscious content pushes up into consciousness, it appears first as a twofold oneness. For this reason nearly all cosmogonies begin their tales of the emergence of world-consciousness with a duality: creator twins, a god and his ‘helper’, or, as in Genesis, the earth ‘without form and void’ over which the Spirit of God moved.”
Lionsgate is “the leading independent filmed entertainment studio”.
When examining these two logos, the first observation is the Lion formed from stars. The second, is the Lionsgate text shown over Sun symbolism. It is clear that this company, who produces many movies containing Freemasonry symbolism consider themselves the guardians of knowledge. Now, Leo, is one of the constellations of the Zodiac. The Zodiac, is a direct reference to the Sun. The Sun is in Leo from approximately July 21 to August 20 depending on the year. The Sun’s position at midday during the time of the Egyptians coincided with the midsummer solstice. Leo was a constellation of the summer.
Leo, the Lion, the Double Lion, Routi, refers directly to the Sun as being a source of knowledge.
The theme of Illumination, Knowledge, or Secrets being kept “under the Lion’s Paw” is a recurring motif.
There seems to be a strange reason why Zahi Hawass, the man in charge of Egyptian archaeology, refuses to let anyone discover what is underneath the Sphinx. Ground radar penetration has revealed a complex tunnel system yet no further investigation or public disclosure has happened. So what lies beneath?
Ming Dynasty Lion Statue in the Forbidden City, China with a spherical object resembling the Flower of Life (Sacred Geometry) held under its right paw.
A pair of Qing “Guardian Lions” holding down some objects with their right paws. One is holding a baby lion, the other a Flower of Life sphere.
A Shi statue found usually in pairs. One female one male.
Imperial guardian lion outside Ngee Ann City in Singapore.
The Tabula Smaragdina by Matthaus Merian. Note the double lion guarding the start of the Alchemical process shown in this picture.
