{"product_id":"myths-of-the-dog-man","title":"Myths of the Dog-Man","description":"\"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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218570039640,"sku":"9780226895093","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226895093_ce48012a-4477-4e00-89a1-9b75896a6b0a.jpg?v=1771308048","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/myths-of-the-dog-man","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}