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The Ancient Egyptian lioness Goddess, and was the goddess of fire, cats, of the home, and pregnant women.
The idea once prevailled that the lordly male established the pride's range and defended it against trespassers. This is true to some extent, but much of the work of establishing the pride and its range and maintaining stability is left up to the lionesses. Females tend to do most of the hunting for the whole pride. They hunt cooperatively, each individual taking on a different role. The larger lionesses tend to ambush prey which the females on the wings chase in her direction. Powerful claws and teeth are the instruments of death that enable a lioness to bring down large prey, including buffalo.
As she sat alone in the dim light of the evening she saw a lioness, her jaws reeking with recent slaughter, approaching the fountain to slake her thirst. She fled at the sight, and sought refuge in the hollow of a rock. As she fled she dropped her veil. The lioness, after drinking at the spring, turned to retreat to the woods, and seeing the veil on the ground, tossed and rent it with her bloody mouth.
Exert from Pyramus & Thisbe (Greek Mythology) |
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