Syria, 2500 BC

This beautiful pendant of a winged lioness was excavated at the Palace of Mari. It dates back to 2500 BC and is now in the National Museum of Syria in Damascus.

It is made of gold, copper and lapis lazuli, the sacred blue stone. If you think of the statuette without the wings it is as if we are looking at a body of a fish, with blue scales in the shape of a diamond and with the head of a lion.

The tail of the fish  has the shape of  an upward pointing triangle with vertical incisions that meet each other in the middle path at the top, through a path of unity. It represents the creative principle (triangle) of holding the focus of aspiring to ascend the individual consciousness from the lower dimensions of the physical into the higher ones. The middle part of the winged fish/lioness is blue as a symbol of Divine Will, the purpose of God. Blue corresponds with the number 5. The number 5 corresponds geometrically with the pentacle, the symbol of human regeneration. the number 5 is also visible in the make-up of the physical bodies of humanity; fingers and toes. Blue is seen in the Human Energy Consciousness Field (HEF, aura) on the 5th level of consciousness and the web-like pattern also.  This dormant sensory perception is awakening in the  awareness of many people in our world.

The diamond pattern is a recurrent theme in global cultural manifestations as this website is stating, and it represents the integration of the lower  dimensions with the higher dimensions (two triangles together) and this was known to be the life task of human beings on Earth. The lapis lazuli wings are incised with what archaeologists refer to as “feathers” but that in reality represent the duality that governs the human domain of the dimensions ruled by time and space. They have the same alternating pattern as the fish tail but now in a horizontal way. There are 8 layers that form triangles bringing the duality in 4 dimensions back into unity, duality consciousness has been overcome in the individual and the duality is closed off by the established equality and oneness consciousness, Earth has been brought upward in the self. It is easy to recognize the geometrical pattern of a cross in this little figurine.

The head is not from a male lion; it stresses therefore that the consciousness of the Divine is a Yin-purpose (Yang) directed consciousness, hence she is a lioness, just like the “Div Sir” lioness (link) that comes from the same area. It is evident that people still had knowledge of the relevance that the Yin energy principle had for their everyday lives. It was known that both man and women had these polarities and there was no judgement at that time of one principle being superior  or inferior to the other, as would be conveyed millennia later by means of religions that shaped societies. The male lion was and still is depicted to represent the Yang polarity of the ego directed personality of the individual; the fire of thinking for ego directed outcomes. Mark, the evangelist is depicted as a winged lion, representing the individual that has integrated the ego and has become “king” i.e. he/she has dominance over their unconscious motives and makes choices that benefit all and not only the self-serving ego. The Christian depiction of Mark as the winged lion, (all evangelists symbols have wings) has let go of the importance of the Yin energy to establish “re-ligare”, reconnection, the true meaning of the concept of religion.

The figure of Maria and the other Maria’s on Earth were bereft of their true significance for the life path of an individual and God, fathers, husbands, brothers and on Athos, the monks republic in Greece, even male animals, were seen as more relevant than their female counterparts. Still, while there is no evangelist that is represented by the fish, the symbol for the Christian faith is…………..a fish! But where this beautiful winged fish is standing upright (see China, Polynesia), the Christian fish is still swimming horizontally through the dark waters of unconscious desire. The left (Yin) wing of the Mesopotamian fish bears horizontal lines that have carved away the lower part of the Yin side; it represents the unconscious desire, emotions, feelings motives underlying our being in this world. We have to use our Yang energy (right hand side of  our bodies) to integrate the unconscious parts of the lower triangle into the rhombus pattern (scales) of the fish body.

So, this 12.8 cm high artefact has a huge symbolic content that archaeologists have difficulty dealing with because of the reluctance in allowing for symbolic thinking and therefore the real significance of this find for our present day world goes unnoticed. But this Sacred Knowledge is humanities real lost treasure!