Or we can see, as the Egyptians saw, in the terms of their own dark souls: seeing the strangeness of the creature outside, the gulf between it and them, but finally, its existence in terms of themselves.

They saw according to their own unchangeable idea, subjectively, they did not go forth from themselves to seek the wonder outside.
Those are the two chief ways of sympathetic vision.

We call our way the objective, the Egyptian the subjective.

But objective and subjective are words that depend absolutely on your starting point.
Spiritual and sensual are much more descriptive terms.
But there are, of course, also the two ways of volitional vision.

We can see with the endless modern critical sight, analytic, and at last deliberately ugly.