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Zoomorphism by definition is, Attribution of animal characteristics or qualities to a god. This means that sometimes a kind of god takes the form of an animal and has a higher power than all the other animals. If this is the case that means that the other animals recognize that this animal is special and does not want to bother it, and in a way looks up to it even if it is smaller. Pi gives an example of zoomorphism when he talks about a little brown Methuselah. "While other mice dropped in the terrarium disappeared within two days, this little brown Methuselah built itself a nest, stored the grains we gave it in various hideaways and scampered about in plain sight of the snakes. We were amazed." Pi later mentions that the mouse was bitten by a young viper; and then was eaten by an adult viper. This represents that the older snakes knew the status of the mouse, but the ignorant young viper was oblivious to it.
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