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The hieracosphinx is a mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry. The god Heru Wer was usually depicted as one.
Description
The Hieracosphinx has the head of a hawk and the body of a lion. The name was coined by Herodotus to the hawk-headed sphinxes that he saw in Egypt (the other being the ram-headed sphinx which Herodotus called Criosphinx).
References
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