• eestileib
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    1 year ago

    I dunno, maybe ask the entire Egyptian pantheon. Or big chunks of the Hindu pantheon.

    Or the 35000+ year old sona known as “the lion man”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man

    Or the Leopard Man society from the Congo.

    Or the Velites from Rome.

    This ain’t new; adopting animal traits and appearance to symbolize aspects of personality is OOOOLD behavior.