Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-104.180.191.194-20160305015545/@comment-78.192.140.21-20170212134345

Taiyang could allude to the yellow dragon in chinese mythology. The yellow dragon is the "zoomorphic incarnation" (quoting wikipedia) of the Yellow Emperor and represent the center of the world.

Yellow is a symbole of courage, revival, warmth and motion in some cultures (Taiyang helping Yang out while she was down seems to fit those ideas) and cowardice, weakness, envy, disgrace and death in others (Leo Lionheart supposidly betraying Ozpin's group seems to fit those ideas).

So I reaaaally don't think Taiyang's the Cowardly Lion. I mean it's extremely evident for the others (Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow, Ironwood) so I don't see why they wouldn't be as evident for the Cowardly Lion (we have Lionheart now so I guess the case is closed).