Myths of the Dog-Man

by David Gordon White

Book Overview

"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),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226895092
• ISBN13: 9780226895093
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"