The Maasai people have traditionally viewed the killing of lions as a rite of passage. Between 19, no fewer than 1,272 lions were killed by park personnel. In the 1890s, over 4000 lions were killed both inside and outside Kruger National Park in an effort to boost game populations. Six realen were awarded to those who shot or captured lions. The first South African legislation on the killing of predators was established in 1656. Lions were present in the Greek peninsula until classical times the prestige of lion hunting was shown in Heracles' first labour, the killing of the Nemean lion, and lions were depicted as prominent symbols of royalty, as for example in the Lion Gate to the citadel of Mycenae. Sometimes the king would invite some nobles to accompany him.Ī lion hunt shown in gold work on a belt plaque, Late Roman, 4th century, Turkey.
Expert spearmen and archers would protect the king. Then, when the lion was killed, the king would pour a Liquid over it and give a speech to the city's god to thank him, so the lion's evil spirit wouldn't come back and haunt him. He would do this by holding it by the mane and then thrusting the sword into the lion's throat. Sometimes the king would kill it on foot with a sword. The king would kill the lion from a chariot with his bow and arrow or spear. Then the lion would get beaten by dogs and beaters, so that the lion would go to the king. To get the lion out of his cage and onto the Syrian plains, a servant would raise a door and start running. The Assyrian kings hunted lions for political and religious purposes, to demonstrate their power. The realism of the lions has always been praised, although the pathos modern viewers tend to feel was perhaps not part of the Assyrian response. In fact the "royal lion hunt", was the staged and ritualized killing by the king of lions already captured and released into an arena. The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, a sequence of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace at Nineveh dating from about 645 BCE in the British Museum in London show King Ashurbanipal hunting lions. These hunts were symbolic of the ruling monarch's duty to protect and fight for his people. In ancient Assyria, lion hunting was a ritualized activity reserved for kings. Commemorative artwork has been found telling of how during a single hunt, pharaoh Amenhotep III allegedly killed more than 100 lions. These hunts nearly resulted in the extinction of the local lion population by 1100 BCE. In Ancient Egypt, lion hunts were usually reserved for pharaohs. Heracles slaying the Nemean lion: detail of a Roman mosaic from Lliria, Spain Ancient Egypt
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