ВОТ!-Gryphon· monstrous birds with eagle's head and a lion's body. From their shouting flowers wither and gohnet grass, and all living beings fall lifeless. The eyes of the Gryphon with a Golden shimmer. Head size resembled the head of a wolf with a huge wicked-looking beak to feet long, wings with a strange second joint, to them easier to fold.
Griffins · "dogs of Zeus" - guard the gold in the country of the Hyperboreans, treasures of the Riphean mountains, guarding them from one-eyed arimaspi (Aeschylus "Prometheus bound", 803 trail. ) Among the fantastic inhabitants of the North - issedonians, arimaspi, Hyperboreans, Herodotus mentions and griffins (Herodot, IV. 13)
Also these monstrous fast birds harnessed to the chariot of Nemezida, that symbolizes the speed of retribution for sins.
Griffin in Greek mythology personified insightful and vigilant power.
Griffin - in Greek mythology, looked like palolem- malware with a snake tail. His image was a symbol of domination above the earth-the lion and the eagle.
The symbolism of this mythical animal is associated with the image of the Sun, because both the lion and the eagle in the myths always inseparably connected with it.
Besides the lion and the eagle are associated with mythological motifs - speed-the eagle and courage-lion.
The functional purpose of the Griffin - protection, we often see him in the form of guards. In this he is similar to the image of a dragon. As a rule, guarding the treasure, or some secret knowledge.
According to one of the researchers, conservation of precious stones and metals, symbolizing the sacred beginning in the ancient world, corresponds to the protection paths to immortality.
Griffin can be seen in Egyptian mythology. Combining the lion (the king) and the Falcon (the symbol of Horus) - this creature can be traced throughout the existence Egyptian civilization in the old and Middle Kingdom he is the symbol of a victorious king, walking over the corpses of enemies.
Boris Vallejo - Gryphon and Egyptian Janice
Griffin probably has Oriental roots, because along with other fabulous animals, he guarded the gold of India.
Flavius philostrates talked about the fact that the griffins are harnessed to the chariot The sun and they actually live in India.
Boris Vallejo - Gryphon
Griffin we see the ancient Sumerians in the myth of Lugalbanda in the form of a huge bird - Anzug
This bird had a lion's head. Depicted hunting deer or other animals. Bird served as an intermediary between heaven and the earthly world, the gods and the people.
Boris Vallejo - Anzug
The image of the Griffin is closely linked to the image of Christ.
Isidore of Seville says that Christ is the lion - because he controls and has the power, and the eagle - because after the death of his Christ ascended into heaven.
Dante Sprague Griffin in the Church triumphant chariot. One part of the Griffin-eagle - gold, the other-lion - scarlet and white. So, perhaps, is passed to the connection in the form of a divine and the human being.
Some researchers suggest that the Gryphon is a symbol of the Pope, fulfilling the divine the will of the Lord on earth.
From their shouting flowers wither and gohnet grass, and all living beings
fall lifeless. The eyes of the Gryphon with a Golden shimmer.
Head size resembled the head of a wolf with a huge
wicked-looking beak to feet long,
wings with a strange second joint, to
them easier to fold.
Griffins · "dogs of Zeus" - guard the gold in the country of the Hyperboreans,
treasures of the Riphean mountains, guarding them from one-eyed arimaspi
(Aeschylus "Prometheus bound", 803 trail. )
Among the fantastic inhabitants of the North - issedonians, arimaspi, Hyperboreans,
Herodotus mentions and griffins (Herodot, IV. 13)
Also these monstrous fast birds harnessed to the chariot of Nemezida,
that symbolizes the speed of retribution for sins.
Griffin in Greek mythology personified insightful
and vigilant power.
Griffin - in Greek mythology, looked like palolem-
malware with a snake tail. His image was a symbol of domination
above the earth-the lion and the eagle.
The symbolism of this mythical animal is associated with the image of the Sun,
because both the lion and the eagle in the myths always inseparably connected with it.
Besides the lion and the eagle are associated with mythological motifs -
speed-the eagle and courage-lion.
The functional purpose of the Griffin - protection, we often see him
in the form of guards. In this he is similar to the image of a dragon. As a rule,
guarding the treasure, or some secret knowledge.
According to one of the researchers, conservation of precious stones
and metals, symbolizing the sacred beginning in the ancient world,
corresponds to the protection paths to immortality.
Griffin can be seen in Egyptian mythology.
Combining the lion (the king) and the Falcon (the symbol of Horus) -
this creature can be traced throughout the existence
Egyptian civilization in the old and Middle Kingdom
he is the symbol of a victorious king, walking over the corpses of enemies.
Boris Vallejo - Gryphon and Egyptian Janice
Griffin probably has Oriental roots,
because along with other fabulous animals, he guarded the gold of India.
Flavius philostrates talked about the fact that the griffins are harnessed to the chariot
The sun and they actually live in India.
Boris Vallejo - Gryphon
Griffin we see the ancient Sumerians in the myth of Lugalbanda
in the form of a huge bird - Anzug
This bird had a lion's head.
Depicted hunting deer or other animals.
Bird served as an intermediary between heaven and
the earthly world, the gods and the people.
Boris Vallejo - Anzug
The image of the Griffin is closely linked to the image of Christ.
Isidore of Seville says that Christ is the lion -
because he controls and has the power, and the eagle - because
after the death of his Christ ascended into heaven.
Dante Sprague Griffin in the Church triumphant chariot.
One part of the Griffin-eagle - gold, the other-lion - scarlet and white.
So, perhaps, is passed to the connection in the form of a divine
and the human being.
Some researchers suggest that the Gryphon
is a symbol of the Pope, fulfilling the divine
the will of the Lord on earth.