Interesting. For what it's worth, the idea of dogs/wolves as guardians of the way into the land of the dead seems to be very, very, very old - you get hints of it in Indo-European, Native American, and apparently, even Egyptian myth. I wonder if it goes back to some ur-source, or if it's just parallel recognition of something about canines.
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Date: 2024-08-06 08:54 pm (UTC)Cheers,
Jeff