Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. legendary beings

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. people by occupation
6. people in the humanities
7. people in religion and related occupations
8. people in religion
9. spirits
10. angels

Anotations

Scope note:

Mythical creatures represented in ancient Middle Eastern art as a lion or bull with eagles' wings and a human face. Regarded in traditional Christian angelology as an angel of the second highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy.