My Thoughts on Lizards in Society

The only way to start, I think is at the beginning, the very beginning. Now your probably wondering why I'm going to talk about things that have no lizards involved whatsoever, but the way I see it before I talk about lizards specifically I have to show you the emergence of animals into the minds of society in general. 

Anthropomorphism and personification of animals has a long history only part of which I will get into here. Many fables, myths, and religions include animals with human characteristics in their stories. Some of those examples are the animal form of a divine being.

Bronze statue of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet

A scene in the Indian fable, Panchatantra, where the rabbit fools the elephant
 by showing him a reflection of the moon.

The Basilisk Lizard

The Brown Basilisk is one of the species of basilisk lizards, also nicknamed the 'Jesus Christ lizard'

Not to be confused with the alternative rock band named The Jesus Lizard, whose music, in my opinion, is passable until somebody attempts to sing...not quite my type of music I'm afraid.