Given that sociomoral disgust is implicated in the creation of monsters (e.g., stigmatized groups like the Jews in Nazi Germany) it should come as no surprise that monsters are divinity violations. Something “high” on the divinity dimension is being mixed with something “low.” A man with a bug-head is taboo as it mixes something sacred (the human person created in the Imago Dei) and brings it into contact with something low and base, in this example an insect.
