Pithecomorphic

My apology for taking the Anthropomorphic, instead of the Pithecomorphic view of nature, is that I am a Man, and not an Ape, and therefore cannot help doing so; and I admit that my idea of the Creator is perhaps as clumsy as the illustration supposes, and that I can no more imagine an abstract Creator, à la Lamarck or à la Darwin, […]

I bave been arguing that human ethology is a “big field”, not one limited to proving what many of us have suspected all along—children are really just like animals. The present conservatism of human ethology is nevertheless useful for it is providing us with a sound bank of empirical data. We have had, after all, a sufficient number of pithecomorphic analyses of human behavior.

p. 87 and pl. XXXIV, middle register, scene 6.3. b: There appears to be a pithecomorphic vessel beneath the woman's stool. For actual examples compare M. Valloggia, “Deux objets thériomorphes découverts dans le mastaba V de Balat”, Livre du centenaire (MIFAO 104; Cairo 1980) 143-151; […]

[…] the exotic little monkey in stamped relief departs from those archetypes and is a more familiar figure in the culture of the seal owner, for the pithecomorphic imagery is indeed found again on an ivory ring, a gold buckle, and a small bronze pendant.