Point/Other Point: Bear or Lion?
Lion
Three of history’s most famous lions are Aslan, Mufasa, and the MGM lion—best known as the lion who roars before Droopy cartoons.
China’s Forbidden City, one of the 10 wealthiest cities in the world, contains many sculptures of lions. Many cultures worldwide believe that lions “consume” evil spirits by eating them.
The lion is the mascot of the Hufflepuff house in the best-selling Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is a member of this house, noted for its history of educating England’s bravest magic guys.
Friedrich Nietzsche—who later got syphilis—argued that lions, as one of nature’s largest beasts, would ultimately overthrow dominant slave moralities and replace them with overlord moralities.
Between 1990 and 2005, lions attacked more than 500 people in Tanzania alone. Ironically, the famous Tsavo man-eaters, two lions that killed 130 people in 1898, were also located in an African nation: Kenya. These lions suffered from tooth decay.
Disney’s The Lion King was for many years the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Over 20 million people see it on Broadway each year.
Unlike most animals, lions are not endangered. If global warming trends continue, however, all lions will die by the year 2008.
Juan Ponce de Leon, whose name translates loosely to “John the Lionhearted,” was the second European in the New World and the first governor of Puerto Rico. Despite killing many Taino natives, he lost his title when Christopher Columbus’s son Diego Columbus sued the king of Spain.
