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	Nemean Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nemean Lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived in Nemea.
		The lion was usually considered the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, but it was also said to have fallen from the moon, offspring of Zeus and Selene.
		The lion had been terrorising the area around Nemea, and had a skin so thick that it was impenetrable to weapons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemean_Lion (310 words)

	Nemean Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nemean Games were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years.
		With the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games were held both the year before and the year after the Olympic Games and the Pythian Games in the third year of the Olympiad cycle.
		They were said to have been founded by Heracles after he defeated the Nemean Lion; another myth said that they originated as the funeral games of a child named Opheltes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nemean_Games (157 words)

	LEO 23rd July – 23rd August
		The lion is the most majestic of beasts and in the animal kingdom he reigns supreme, but it’s within its own environment that we find its characteristics.
		Lions are large, strong and fearless as well as being the deadliest of all the animal kingdom.
		Male lions are defensive and guard against other males, building up a trust with one or two other males, all of whom know their place.
	www.sohoxpress.com /lj/hs/leo.htm (2099 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - V - The Slaying of the Nemean Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - V - The Slaying of the Nemean Lion
		Upon the ground the arrow fell and failed to pierce the shoulder of the lion.
		He laid the lion's skin beneath the feet of him who was the Teacher of his life, and gained permission to wear the skin in place of that already worn and used.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/hercules/herc1028.html (1022 words)

	The Nemean Lion
		The Lion would have to be stopped, before her anger annihilated the innocent and guilty alike.
		Knowing of the Lion's invulnerability, and all too aware anything that led to a wounded and desperate animal would make matters far worse, she determined to meet it well away from the frightened townspeople.
		The Sun was beginning to sink in the West, and Heraklaea found herself faced with the prospect of continuing the fight in the dark, where the Lion would hold the advantage thanks to her night vision and keen sense of smell.
	www.moonspeaker.ca /Heraklaea/labour1.html (703 words)

	Hercules and the Nemean Lion
		This lion was not easy to stalk and to kill because it lived in a cave with two escape routes.
		In order to keep the lion from escaping, he blocked the caves' second exit, went into it straight from the front and strangled the lion with his bare hands.
		Not even in the dead lion body he was able to cut with his knife so he had to use the beasts diamondhard claws to cut off the skin.
	www.geocities.com /loewenfrau/heracles.html (198 words)

	Nemean Lion
		The Nemean Lion, offspring of Typhon and Echidna, was big, bad, and lived near a town called Nemea.
		The lions hide was very valuable because it was resistant to all kinds of weapons (and don't ask me “Was this poor lion a victim of radiation and the people just didn’t except him for who he really was” because I’ll just say IT WAS A GIANT MANKILLING AND POSSIBLY MANEATING BEAST).
		Anyway as Hercules’ 1st labour he had to kill the Nemean Lion, which was invulnerable to all weapons by the way, to Save the people of Nemea from the evil of the Nemean Lion.
	faculty.trinityvalleyschool.org /carlsonb/higgss/index_files/Page414.htm (119 words)

	Spiritual Astrology: Leo
		Perhaps the mystery of the sphinx is connected with this, for in the sphinx we have the lion with a woman's head, Leo with Virgo, the symbol of the lion or kingly soul, and its relation to the matter or Mother aspect.
		Hercules, the aspirant, the soul, symbolized the lion, the prince, the king, the ruler, and because of this he symbolically wore the lion's skin.
		The Nemean lion stands essentially for the coordinated, dominant personality, for the aspirant has always to be a highly evolved individual.
	www.spiritualpsychotherapy.net /spiritualastrologyleo (4205 words)

	The Nemean Lion
		It's been said that this lion was the guardian of the palace of goddess Selini (moon), and one day in her anger she kicked the lion down to earth.
		The cave had two entrances, so Hercules blocked off one entrance to the lion's cave to trap the beast inside and crawled into the close confines where it would have to fight face to face with his club as his only weapon.
		He then skinned the lion and wore the lion's skin as a cloak and its gaping jaws as a helmet and marched to Tiryns and into the palace.
	www.steliart.com /hercules_nemean_lion.html (477 words)

	Sky Watch Sky Stories - DiscoverySchool.com
		The Nemean Lion and the Hydra were the sons of Echidna and Typhon—a dashing couple: she, a hideous beast with the head of a maiden and the body of a serpent; he, a venom-dripping, lava-spewing mess of a man with 100 heads.
		The Nemean Lion was enjoying one of his frequent, murderous jaunts through the countryside when he first spotted Hercules.
		Some have said that Hera, the wife of Zeus, was angry with Hercules’ success against the Nemean Lion and that she placed the soul of the lion in the sky, where we can now see him as the constellation Leo.
	school.discovery.com /schooladventures/skywatch/stories/march.html (708 words)

	Labor 5 The Number Five
		In the fifth sign, Leo, Hercules performs that one of his labors which is the best known historically, for the slaying of the Nemean lion has always been associated with Hercules, though it is interesting to note that this famous labor has no relation to the lion's skin which Hercules always wore.
		Then he chased the lion into the cave through the unblocked opening and, leaving all weapons behind, even the club which he had himself made, he entered the cave and with his two hands choked the lion to death.
		That was an encounter that took place unseen by anybody; Hercules and the lion in the dark and the gloom of the cave taking part, both of them, in a struggle which had to be to the death.
	www.steliart.com /labor_5_the_number_five.htm (1228 words)

	Lion Torc neckrings Crafty Celts
		The first labor for the Greek hero Heracles was to rid the Nemean plain of the wild, enormous and extremely ferocious beast known as the Nemean Lion.
		Quick as a flash Heracles drew his bow and released an arrow, but it failed to harm the lion; the skin of this creature could not be penetrated by even the sharpest of points.
		The lion pounced, but Heracles was ready, smashing his heavy club into the oncoming monster, stunning it.
	www.craftycelts.com /torcs/lion.html (229 words)

	Leo: The Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other sources state that the Nemean Lion fell to Earth from the Moon and was the offspring of Zeus (King of the Gods) and Selene (Goddess of the Moon).
		An alternative to the story of how the Nemean Lion was skinned states that Athene, in the guise of an ancient crone, eventually helped Hercules to realize that the best tool to cut the hide would be the beast's very own claws.
		However, historians have traditionally disagreed as to whether the skin Hercules is portrayed wearing in such works of art is that of the Nemean Lion or that of different lion entirely...one which Hercules is said to have killed when he was eighteen years old.
	www.novareinna.com /constellation/leolegend.html (755 words)

	In the Tracks of Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Labour 5: The Slaying of the Nemean Lion
		The people of Nemea, in deep distress, are calling for him to kill a lion that devastates their land and forces them to live in fear behind locked doors.
		This fifth sign of Leo is significant, for the number five is, esoterically speaking, the number of man. Each individual is a son of God as well as the quaternary of the lower nature of mind, emotions, vital body and physical sheath.
	www.lucistrust.org /hercules/labours/leo.html (607 words)

	Lions in Literature: The Nemean Lion and Heracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lions in Literature: The Nemean Lion and Heracles
		In this Greek myth Apollodorus describes the story of the Nemean lion becoming victim of Heracles.
		But the lion felt that Heracles was quite resolute and thought it wise to avoid him.
	home.concepts-ict.nl /~rlion/llherae.htm (233 words)

	The first on the list of Heracles' labours was the task of killing the Nemean Lion, a giant beast that roamed the hills ...
		The first on the list of Heracles' labours was the task of killing the Nemean Lion, a giant beast that roamed the hills and the streets of the Peloponnesian villages, devouring whomever it met.
		That is, instead of drawing their inspiration from a night-time symbol with a monthly cycle--a symbol which dealt with the fecundity of the earth and of its animals--the new rulers identified with an animal of strength and power, and with a heavenly body that ruled the day.
		To assert this new religion, or new political structure, the lion was made to kill the bull.
	www.megalleria.com /leo.html (480 words)

	Mythology of the Sun Signs - Astrology.com
		Once he had killed the lion, his brother and taskmaster Eurystheus wanted him to bring its hide back to the city as proof that he had actually accomplished the task.
		When Heracles realized that the lion's hide was truly impenetrable, he decided to kill it using brute force.
		The spirit of the lion was placed in the sky, where, no longer deadly, it has become beautiful.
	www.astrology.com /aboutastrology/overview/mythology/leo.html (246 words)

	Constellation Leo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hercules' first labor was to kill the Nemean lion, a fierce beast who descended to Earth from the Moon in the form of a meteor and ravaged the countryside of Corinth.
		The cowardly king was terrified at the sight of the beast and fled.
		So angry was Hera at Hercules' success that she raised the soul of the lion high into the sky, where today he can be seen as the constellation Leo, the Lion.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/leo.html (354 words)

	Official Beast for 3-16-05 Nemean Lion - :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM::
		The first labor for the hero Heracles, was to rid the Nemean plain of the wild, enormous and extremely ferocious beast known as the Nemean Lion.
		In art the hero is usually depicted wearing the Nemean lion skin, its jaws forming the peak of the helmet while its great clawed paws are knotted at his chest forming a hooded cloak, and he is usually leaning on his club, or hanging it on his shoulder.
		It is interesting to note that much of the Classical/Roman imagery of Heracles/Hercules with the lion skin is mimicked in the later Christian imagery of John the Baptist.
	www.leasticoulddo.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=8023 (959 words)

	Heracles and the Nemean Lion texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And having come to Nemea and tracked the lion, he first shot an arrow at him, but when he perceived that the beast was invulnerable, he heaved up his club and made after him.
		And when the lion took refuge in a cave with two mouths, Hercules built up the one entrance and came in upon the beast through the other, and putting his arm round its neck held it tight till he had choked it; so laying it on his shoulders he carried it to Cleonae.
		, the lion of Parnassus, the serpents in many parts of Greece, and the boars of Calydon, Eryrmanthus and Crommyon in the land of Corinth, so that it was said that some were sent up by the earth, that others were sacred to the gods, while others had been let loose to punish mankind.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/HeraclesNemeanLionTexts.html (500 words)

	Nemean Lion
		The Nemean Lion possessed all the traditional abilities, senses and parameters of a normal lion (Felis leo) except on much a greater level.
		(Greek/Roman Myth) - The Nemean Lion was the spawn of of the Titan Typhon, and his mate, Echidna, the snake-goddess.
		CLARIFICATIONS: The Nemean Lion is not to be confused with:
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/nemeanlion.htm (551 words)

	Nemean Lion * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		The lion slain by Herakles (Heracles) as part of his First Labor.
		The Nemean lion was the predatory offspring of the dog, Orthos and the serpent-monster, Ekhidna (Echidna), and presumably, the sister of the deadly Sphinx of the city of Thebes and the half-sister of Kerberos (Cerberus), the watchdog of the gates of the Underworld.
		Killing the Nemean Lion is considered to be Herakles’ First Labor because he was often depicted in ancient artwork wearing the lion’s skin; the hide of the Nemean Lion and the club were Herakles’ trademark, i.e.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Nemean_Lion_1.html (312 words)

	Hercules - The Nemean Lion
		Hercules had heard of this Nemean Lion that's hide was so tough that no weapon could pierce it, and he was scared.
		Hercules reacted quickly and threw the huge boulder that he was resting on at the Nemean Lion.
		Then, Hercules skinned the lion of it's hide and wore it for the rest of his eleven labors.
	www2.lhric.org /eastchester/schools/ms/hercules/hercules1.html (228 words)

	Winning Entry Bernice L
		The Nemean Lion and his half-sister the Lernaean Hydra were the offspring of the hideous Echidna.
		Echidna today would symbolize ugliness, and the Nemean Lion would have as its modern counterpart obesity, which is in a sense the spawn of ugliness.
		The Nemean lion (obesity) was the offspring of the Echidna (ugliness), as was the Lernaean Hydra.
	department.monm.edu /classics/Department/FoxContest/FoxWinner2003.htm (1979 words)

	Hercules' First Labor: the Nemean Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Hercules got to Nemea and began tracking the terrible lion, he soon discovered his arrows were useless against the beast.
		Grasping the lion in his mighty arms, and ignoring its powerful claws, he held it tightly until he'd choked it to death.
		Ancient writers disagreed as to whether the skin Hercules wore was that of the Nemean lion, or one from a different lion, which Hercules was said to have killed when he was 18 years old.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Herakles/lion.html (498 words)

	The Nemean Lion
		More than two thousand years ago, Greeks believed the god Zeus placed the figure of a gigantic lion in the sky with the rest of the stars.
		The people who lived in that region were terrorized by the Nemean Lion.
		Heracles, the most famous Greek hero, was ordered by the king, Euryshtheus, to kill the Nemean lion.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/nemean_lion.html (186 words)

	Leo
		Leo is the Nemean Lion slain by Hercules as the first of his Labors.
		The Lion lived in a cave near the town of Nemea southwest of Corinth.
		Using the Lion's own sharp claws, Hercules was able to cut off the animals tough hid, which he wore as a cloak, with the Lion's head serving as his helmet.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/leo.html (199 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - V - The Slaying of the Nemean Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The great Presiding One sat within the Council Chamber of the Lord and there discussed the plan of God for all the sons of men, who are the sons of God.
		"Is it the roaring of a lion I hear, upon the evening air?" The Teacher said: "Go, seek the lion which ravages the land lying upon the further side of the fifth Gate.
		From north to south, from east to west the lion prowls and prowling seizes all who cross his path.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/hercules/herc1027.html (627 words)

	Herakles and the Nemean Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The subject on side A is Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion, one of the twelve Labors Herakles performed.
		The lion, who was raised by the goddess Hera and dwelled in the Nemean hills, was invulnerable to metal weapons, and thus Herakles is often shown strangling the lion, as here, or wielding a club.
		The story of Herakles and the Lion was the most popular Labor depicted in ancient Greek art, especially in the Archaic period (ca.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2001fall/art/358/001/students/meyers/herakles.htm (112 words)

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