"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 ...
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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
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Add this copy of Myths of the Dog-Man to cart. $94.00, very good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1991 by University of Chicago Press.
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13pp photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. 23x15cm, xiv, 334, (13)pp, Foreword by Wendy Doniger. Contents: Hell is Other People; The Cynocephalic Saint; The Cynocephalic Hordes; Visvamitra & the Dog-Cookers; Dog-Cookers & other Borderline Cases in Ancient & Medieval India; Central Asia: The Vortex of Cyanthropy; Chinese Dog-Man Traditions: P'an Hu & the Ch'uan Jung; Barbarians in Ancient China; Facing up to Other People.