AZUTH

AZUTH

"From the waist up, the creature the sculpure depicted resembled Ngagi, the gorilla, and animal of which Imaro had once caught glimpses in the Kajua forest, where the Mtumwe dwelled. However, the skin of this creature was hairless, and its wide mouth bore fangs that were even longer than those of the red panther Imaro had slain."

"It was the lower extremities of the unknown beasts's body that marked it as something alien to the world of natural life. Its legs were like those of the hindquarters of Mboa the buffalo--thick muscular haunches tapering to sharp, lethal hooves. A tail like that of the buffalo hung behind the creature. It was as though the halves of two separate creatures had somehow been melded into an appalling whole."

Charles R. Saunders, Imaro II: The Quest For Cush