Africa is the world's primary home for wild lions. From the Serengeti plains of East Africa to the savannas of Southern Africa, prides of lions still hunt and reproduce there. This continent, teeming with lions, should logically be the place where lion worship is most prevalent. However, the opposite is true—in the long history of human lion worship, sub-Saharan Africa has actually deified the lion the least. Why is this?
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Africa is the world's primary home for wild lions. From the Serengeti plains of East Africa to the savannas of Southern Africa, prides of lions still hunt and reproduce there. This continent, teeming with lions, should logically be the place where lion worship is most prevalent. However, the opposite is true—in the long history of human lion worship, sub-Saharan Africa has actually deified the lion the least. Why is this?