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Many news stories about prehistoric finds and their possible meaning in
terms of archaeology and social history have reached the world in recent
decades. One of them, found in South Germany, put scientists around the
world in a state of amazement some years back. The centerpiece is the lion
man, an idol that is made from the tusk of a mammoth in the form of a
human body with a lion head. Amazingly it is dated to be 32,000 years old.
This discovery generated a lot of attention in the archaeological circles of
Europe. In excavations around 1930-35 at the Lonetal area near Ulm,
Germany, scientist discovered an immense jurassic cave system with lots of
In India there are many ancient temples in which the Deities of Sri
Narasimha Bhagavan reside and are worshiped. Many are located in special
tirthas, high up on mountain peaks or deep in caves.
Many other ancient cultures had idols or pictures of divine lion-like
personalities with a human face or torso, that may also have their origin in
Nrsimhadeva. For example, Egypt has the Sphinx and the war-like
Sekhmetm; Persia has the Sun god Mithra, the Assyrians have the Gate
Guardians of Babylon, and the Etruscan lion with wings stands at the
entrance of the Temple mountain at Troy.
The winged man-lion idols are sometimes said to be associated with the
Gandaberunda form of Narasimhadev, a two-headed bird form that
Nrsimhadeva took while fighting with Shiva in his Sharabha (bird) form.
The great discovery in Lonetal of the man-lion idol was found in a deep cave,
situated northeast towards the River Lone. At this point, Indologists and
experts in proto-Vedic archeology have no proof that this idol is, in fact, Lord
Narasimhadev, but with the sculpture now available for exhibition, perhaps
other evidence will come to the fore, matching this form to other ancient
depictions of the Visnu Avatara, our worshipable Nrisimha.
Source: Sampradaya Sun