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Myths of the Dog-Man
Author:David Gordon White
Published on 1991-05-07 by University of Chicago Press

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|An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian Gadla Hawaryat (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas (|Dog-Cookers|); the Dog Rong (|warlike barbarians|) during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the nochoy ghajar (Mongolian for |Dog Country|) of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao |barbarians| from chapter 116 of the History of the Latter Han and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites. . . . Extremely well-researched and highly significant.|—Victor H. Mair, Asian Folklore Studies