Shapeshifting

In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting, or metamorphosis is the ability of an entity to physically transform into another being or form. This is usually achieved through an inherent faculty of a mythological creature, divine intervention, or the use of magic spells or talismans.

The idea of shapeshifting has been present since antiquity and may be common in all cultures. It is present in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest extant literature and epic poems, including works such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad, where the shapeshifting is usually induced by the act of a deity. The idea persisted through the Middle Ages, where the agency causing shapeshifting is usually a sorcerer or witch, and into the modern period. It remains a common trope in modern fantasy, children's literature, and works of popular culture.

The most common form of shapeshifting myths is that of therianthropy, which is the transformation of a human being into an animal or conversely, of an animal into human form. Legends allow for transformations into plants and objects, and the assumption of another human countenance (e.g. fair to ugly).

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Shape-Shifting

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Inexorable conversion
Accelerated change
Prosthesis made of light
For new modular religion
Newly minted nightmares
In luminous code
Machina ex machina
Infocalypse now
The categories crack and strain
The borders bleed and break
The mind ignites and burns
Shape-shifting
The time of quickening
Undivine invasions
The liquid architecture
The stony blood
Implantation of the soul
Pornography of the mind
Anomaly breeding
All lifeworlds gush
Furious glossolalia
Unholy heterosia
Festive impurity
Orgy of mutation
Demonic simulacrum
Fluidity of the "I"
The categories crack and strain
The borders bleed and break
Treason of the Godhead




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