These cases show a confusion between the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit.
The reader has probably remarked the complete parallelism between the anthropomorphic and the theriomorphic conceptions of the corn-spirit.
Here, again, we are met with that confusion between the anthropomorphic and theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit, which has been already signalised.
In these latter customs the confusion between the anthropomorphic and theriomorphic conception of the corn-spirit meets us again.
This indicates a confusion between the conceptions of the corn-spirit as theriomorphic (in animal form) and as anthropomorphic (in human form).
The process by which an anthropomorphic god or hero succeeds to the exploits of animals, of theriomorphic gods and heroes, is the most common in mythology, and is illustrated by actual practice in modern India.
This story seems to take us back to the days of theriomorphic religion--or perhaps one should say to a time when certain marine animals were regarded as divine.
Monsters and theriomorphic demons are by no means unknown in Greek heroic stories, though in the poems which have come down to us they figure prominently only in episodes dealing with past events.
They recognized a relation between these beings, and others of a less highly developed aspect, phallic demons, often of theriomorphic form.
In the myths of the other races on the North-west Pacific Coast nothing is more remarkable than the theriomorphic character of the heroes, who are also to a certain extent gods and makers of things.
Once more, the supernatural beings of Zuni religion are almost invariably in the shape of animals, or in monstrous semi-theriomorphic form.
If our theory of the evolution of gods is correct, we may expect to find in the myths of Indra traces of a theriomorphic character.
A more savage and theriomorphic hypothesis it would be hard to discover among Bushmen or Nootkas.
The zoo-morphic or theriomorphicmythologies and creeds are nowhere more vivacious than in America.
It is not to be expected that many, if any, remains of a theriomorphiccharacter should cling to a goddess so abstract as Aditi.
The Algonkins, however, thought otherwise, and the myth itself suggests a theriomorphic earth-maker.
Theriomorphic creators are most fully attested for the Red Indian tribes, whose very backwardness renders them so valuable to an anthropologist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theriomorphic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
