On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Tim Ellis <tim_at_BZ9VyYD6Dwzj8pfi7gSZH6ioQ0G8NOOIAhpOujR9V1uZlmZ14nHRNwqtyZBuMevI2QG785ev8blzEMv3eX6o_fQdcw.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>> IMG, all the storm gods have some kind of connection to a horned
>> grazing beast.[...] My only problem with all of that is that the
>> Morocanth don't have horns. A couple possible resolutions: (a)
>> tusks count as horns; (b) the morocanth weren't originally storm
>> people. I like leaving that ambiguous.
>
> a)I didn't think Morocanth had (particularly prominant) tusks either
On a related note, there are "primitive" deer that have tusks instead
of antlers - and the tusks are used for the same functions as antlers.
Tapirs (some of them anyway - I'm not claiming expertise) have tusks,
so perhaps Morocanths do as well - and they serve the same
weapon/mating functions as horns or antlers would.