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therianthropic

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therianthropic [ˌθɪərɪənˈθrɒpɪk]
adj
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) (of certain mythical creatures or deities) having a partly animal, partly human form
2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) of or relating to such creatures or deities
[from Greek thērion wild animal + anthrōpos man]
therianthropism  [ˌθɪərɪˈænθrəˌpɪzəm] n


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Remarkably, painted depictions displaying the distinctive therianthropic element date back some 26 000 years (see Wendt 1976: 6), suggesting some degree of continuity in the cosmology and ideology of southern African San foragers (Lewis-Williams & Pearce 2004: 45).
The Devil himself is conceived as a therianthropic, female personification which is reminiscent of Satan's description of the form he will assume in the Chester Drapers' Play,(43) or the lamia imagery that Langland employs: For in my paleis, Paradis, in persone of an addre, Falsliche thow fettest there thyng that I lovede.
The belief in therianthropic beings, attested in the whole world in all periods, no doubt forms part of the universals of the human mind.
 
 
 
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