auntblabby wrote:
i dreamt i was on the sunset beach off the strip [california] with the crew of the 1980s "Tonight Show" - i'm guessing it was indeed the 1980s even though i saw today's version of Jay Leno. it was after sunset and the lights of LA were in front of us as we walked along the Pacific, and one crew member was holding a tame mountain lion which seemed impossibly big and bulky, it was purring as he scratched around its ears and jowls with one hand, the mountain lion/cougar hanging on with its paws around the back of the man's shoulders. then the man put the cougar down on the sand, the cougar wasn't having that and first meowed in a baritone voice then shrieked like cougars do when alarmed, then stood up on its haunches in a "dancing lion" or begging pose with its paws bent forward in front of him, a "treat stare" on its face. then some other cougars in a procession all adopted the same begging pose, they sorta looked a bit like those stone monoliths on rapa nui [can't remember the western name of that place].
Easter Island.
That's the Western name for the place with the big enigmatic stone heads.
Lions of the Old World kind (the ones with manes)are shown in something like that pose in heraldry. You see a lion and a unicorn upright with forelimbs out on either side of a big shield on Britain's coat of arms.
So seeing American type "lions" posed that way might have some kind symbolism to do with aristocracy or royalty.Sumpn like that.