Collier, V. W. F. [from old catalog] · New York, Stokes · leaf 60
red dog to Mars at the Arvalia, to prevent the crops taking fire. The symbolof Ares was Sirius, the dog-star, and there thus appears every reason to connect himwith the Akkadian Uras, the god of glowing fire. The development of this god intoHercules with the club, shows that the god of fire was… … ALTAR OF ERH LANG, PEKING To face ^.32 DOG-LORE AND SUPERSTITION the noisy manner in which, up to recent years, when the sunor moon stood in danger of eclipse, the people attempted todissuade him from his celestial meal. The Chinese term for an eclipse is still the eating up of the sun or moon. The…
Dogs · Animals in art · Art, Chinese
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