@Midori Tengu Not at all the ARYAN LION of Iran is purely an Indo-European phenomenon and not Semitic at all therefore they come from completely separate sources this is because the IRANIAN PEOPLE (i.e. the TRUE ARYAN PEOPLE) are an Indo-European people like Germanics, Slavics, Romanics, Hellenics, Baltics, Celtics, Albanians, Armenians and Hindics meaning the Iranian People (i.e Aryan People) are not a Semitic People like the Jews, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Aramians, Nabatians, Egyptians and the Arabs Shāhanshāh Kurosh (Cyrus) the Great of the Iranian Empire (i.e. Aryan Empire) under the Achaemenid Dynasty of Iran is shown here on the stone carvings to be honouring the sun deity Mithrā and her Aryan Lion companion known as Zhiān