The earliest evidence of felines (including lions) as deities comes from a 3100 BC crystal cup decorated with an image of the lion-headed goddess Mafdet.
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They built the Great Pyramid of Giza—really an energy transfer antenna—and planned to send Earth's rotational energy to Thuban 9, but became distracted by their reverential treatment by the Egyptians, eventually forgetting their technology over the centuries and into the present day.