I thought once about how far into the past the Furry Fandom's origins can be traced. So I thought about T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (splendid book, an adorable thing to read to your child or just read), then about Ysengrimus, and then I understood these are already well-known. Perhaps the traces are even older. So I tried thinking about the first depictions of animals in human culture, and got to the pictures of animals on the walls of caves.
Then a thought flashed across my mind: can it be that anthropomorphism and associating oneself with an animal is that ancient? Perhaps the buffalos and gazelles depicted in these primitive frescos are representation of people, and pictures of them being hunted down were declarations of war, or personal threats? The idea amused me.
Just a layman's two cents.
(Post scriptum: M. F. is no more. He met some mongrel somewhere. Rejoice; no more irrelevant gobshite in this blog.)
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