There are several Paleolithic sites that display therianthropic imagery.
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Moche iconography is also indicative of shamans with depictions of therianthropic beings and intricate rituals.
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While some figures are abstract representations of animals, others appear to be therianthropic in nature.
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Likewise, these studies support the fact that the therianthropic, otherkin and furry communities are very similar in nature and are often interconnected.
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While attempting to escape the backyard, they are attacked by a wild cat, which is revealed to be a therianthropic manifestation of Felice.
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The therianthropic figure of a half bird and half man was the symbol of the matatoa; the distinct character connected the sacred site of Orongo.
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The iconography of the gold pieces varies from animals such as bats, deer, sharks, crocodiles, and saurians to human and therianthropic figures.
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Mayon, incarnated as the son of Iraniyan ( Prahlada ), challenged his authority and finally took on the therianthropic form of man and lion ( Narasimha ) by piercing his stomach.
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A solid consensus of authors and curators today interpret pre-Columbian art as expressing a belief in therianthropic shapeshifting, often citing hallucinogenic drugs as the root of the Mesoamerican and Desert Southwest shapeshifter folktales.
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Although the werewolf is the best known animal transformation figure in popular western culture, the plots of several novels in the fantasy and mythic fiction fields revolve around other kinds of therianthropic characters . " Swim the Moon ", by Paul Brandon, is set in contemporary Australia and explores Scottish selkie legends . " The Antelope Wife ", by Louise Erdrich, set in modern-day Minnesota, draws on Ojibwe myths of women who can shift between human and antelope shape . " The Fox Woman ", by Kij Johnson, set in historic Japan, re-tells a kitsune legend in novel form . " Coyote Blue ", by Christopher Moore, is a contemporary comic novel about a Native American trickster who can shift between human and coyote forms . " Hannah's Garden ", by Midori Snyder, set in the rural American Midwest, draws on Anglo-Irish legends of shape-changing hares to tell a story about death, family dynamics, and the power of creativity . " The Wood Wife ", by Terri Windling, set in Tucson, Arizona, and most of the novels of Charles de Lint, set in Canada, blend the shape-shifting legends of European folklore, the therianthropic lore of tricksters and shamans, and animal-human hybrid characters drawn from various Native American mythologies.