{"product_id":"0226895092-myths_of_the_dog-_man","title":"Myths of the Dog-Man","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eGadla Hawaryat\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003enochoy ghajar\u003c\/i\u003e (Mongolian for \"Dog Country\") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao \"barbarians\" from chapter 116 of the \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Latter Han\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAsian Folklore Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Spirituality\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReligious Studies\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eComparative Religion\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47619888840894,"sku":"0226895092-4","price":19.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71uhBZJ_WGL.jpg?v=1781103793","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0226895092-myths_of_the_dog-_man","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}