Why this word is great
ZOOMORPHISM — [Noun] The attribution of animal forms, characteristics, or behaviors to gods, humans, or inanimate objects, especially as a stylistic device in art and literature. Formed within English by compounding, from the Greek ζῷον (zōion, "animal") and μορφή (morphē, "form, shape"). Unlike anthropomorphism, which dresses the world in human likeness, or theriomorphism, which often confines the animal form to the divine, zoomorphism is the primal, inverse projection: a descent into the creature. It is the snarling prow of a Viking longship, the vulpine cunning in a statesman’s gaze, and the slow, tectonic patience of mountains described as slumbering beasts. This is our confession, in stone and story, of the fur and feather we never truly shed.