Widely-cited fandom-canon — Alabasta’s sacred-animal grammar is one of Oda’s clearer parallel-arc-structure installs.
Why this matters
Alabasta’s kingdom-identity is partly religious-zoological — the kingdom does not just have unusual fauna; it worships them. This pre-loads the Pell and Chaka Zoan-guardian reveals (both Royal Guard Marines with animal-Zoan fruits — sacred-animal-as-state-protector grammar) and the later sandstorms-and-rain-myth Alabasta religious frame.