btw I mean chimera here in the Greek sense of animals that were made of a whole bunch of different animals.

When this sort of thing happened with humans you got centaurs or minataurs in greek mythology or elephant men in indian mythology. Its my theory that these critters represented 1st millenia bc meditations on the the clash of time and eternity in the souls of men. god’s or goddesses mating with men or women to produce beasts.

the problem represented by these creatures was this: how do you live in both time and eternity…because man is made for both.

this problem was resolved imho in the God Man Christ (the son of God and a Virgin)in whom we unholy creatures –are enabled each by faith through God’s grace to enter into the presence of the living God.