{"product_id":"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":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48662374875371,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":76.91,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780226895093-1.jpg?v=1781613303","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780226895093","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}