Zoomorphism

1. n. The representation of God, or of gods, in the form, or with the attributes, of the lower animals.
2. n. The transformation of men into beasts.
3. n. The quality of representing or using animal forms; as, zoomorphism in ornament.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.