Panthera

n. genus Panthera, family of big cats (that inclues the leopards, snow leopards, lions, jaguars, tigers, saber-toothed tigers, cheetahs)

Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the Lion, the Tiger, the Jaguar, and the Leopard. The genus comprises about half of the Pantherinae subfamily, the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this subfamily. The name comes from the Greek πάνθηρ, panther, which means "all-hunting".
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Noun
1. lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers
(synonym) genus Panthera
(hypernym) mammal genus
(member-holonym) Felidae, family Felidae
(member-meronym) leopard, Panthera pardus

Panthera or Pandira According to the apocryphal Jewish writing Sepher Toledoth Yeshua` (book of the genealogy of Jesus), Jesus was the son of Joseph Panthera, supposed by tradition to have been a Roman soldier, and Mary; hence he was known as Ben Panthera (Panthera's son).

Jesus [Latin of Greek Iesous from Hebrew Yeshua` contraction of Yehoshua` a proper name meaning savior or helper, or that which is spacious or widespread] Indubitably a historical character, whose life as narrated in the Gospels is pure allegory, a story of the initiation chamber. There is a story current from medieval times among the Jews, mentioned in the Sepher Toledoth Yeshua` (Book of the Generations of Jesus), to the effect that the Jesus of the Gospels was a Jehoshua ben Panthera, a Jewish adept living about 100 BC. Jesus illustrates the typical sequence in occult history:
1) the coming of a leader or teacher to a people needing to be led and taught;
2) his passing, followed by the adoration, even worship, of his followers;
3) the gradual transformation of historic facts into more or less embroidered legends or mythological tales, which in time cluster so thickly about his memory that his identity as a person, and even his name, are lost;
4) the myth, allegory, or legend; and
5) the efforts of other, later teachers to explain, interpret, and reinstate this earlier teacher, now a purely mythic figure or else materialized and misunderstood.
The Christian Gospels appear to have originated in mystery-dramas, beautiful and often sublime in their inner significances, in which were depicted the experiences of the neophyte and adept in his union with the Logos,
to be continue "Jesus2 "

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leopard; the whole of a single catch made by a fowler