The "destructive (*) eye of Ra" took the form of this animal when she ran amok on the Earth, but was pacified after she mistook pomegranate alcohol for blood.
It's not the Sphinx, but the Naxians of Delos built a terrace of marble statues of this animal dedicated to Apollo. The Speos Artemidos temples were built for a goddess of this form whose names means "she who tears," Pakhet. Two of these animals look away from each other in a symbol of the earth deity Aker. Ptah's wives and his son, the war god Maahes, were depicted with the head of this animal. The "destructive (*) eye of Ra" took the form of this animal when she ran amok on the Earth, but was pacified after she mistook pomegranate alcohol for blood. This was the animal form of Hathor's violent counterpart, Sekhmet. For his first labor, Heracles strangled one of these animals. For 10 points, name these animals, one of which with impenetrable fur lived in Nemea.
It's not the Sphinx, but the Naxians of Delos built a terrace of marble statues of this animal dedicated to Apollo.
lions [or lionesses; prompt on cats]