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Demonology and devil-lore (1879)

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 154

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tolerably clear that itis to his connection with Yama, god of Death, and underthe evolution of that dualism which divided the universeinto upper and nether, that the Dog was degraded amongour Aryan ancestors ; at the same time his sometimeswolfish disposition and some other natural characters… … Fig. 8.—Cerberus (Calmet). mythologists as the morning and evening twilight: alater phase shows them in the service of Yama, and theyreappear in the guardian of the Greek Hades, Cerberus,and Orthros. The first of these has been traced to theVedic Sarvara, the latter to the monster Vritra. Orthrosis…

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