{"product_id":"myths-of-the-dogman-9780226895093","title":"Myths of the Dog-Man","description":"\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 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960512405557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226895092","price":97.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/myths-of-the-dogman-9780226895093","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}