Myths of the Dog-Man

"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

• Author
• David Gordon White, Wendy Doniger

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 334

• Publisher
• University of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226895093

• Genres
• mythology, folklore, monsters, history

• Release date
• 1991