The combination of a lion zombie and the Nigerian Golden Mask may sound absurd, but for some reason, it gave off the feel of a Sphinx. One was a relic of the ancient Nigerian civilization while the other was a relic of the ancient Babylonian civilization, but they had actually combined together.
(TL: That's right, Babylon had Sphinxes too. Bet you didn't know that did you?)
But this was actually nothing to be surprised about. Historical studies had shown that there exists many similarities and coincidences in mythologies even between completely unrelated Eastern and Western ancient civilizations, such as an ancient great flood or the creation of mankind from clay.
The Sphinx was merely a similarity in the two ancient civilizations. There was nothing strange about a coincidence like this.
