Myths of the Dog-Man by David Gordon White University of Chicago Press 1991

Myths of the Dog-Man by David Gordon White University of Chicago Press 1991

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. . . 

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.

hardcover

23x15cm, xiv, 334,(13)pp,  

good condition