The Lands Where Man Has A Dog's Head

So, was mankind once crossed with canines? Okay, probably not many readers will believe this to be the case but …

The Koniagas, a tribe of North American Natives, trace their pedigree back to a dog. And the legends of a breed of men with dog’s head is a recurring one in many different civilisation. For example …

One of the best accounts is by Sir John Mandeville, who wrote …

Marco Polo said that these people lived in the Andaman Islands in The Bay of Bengal.

Also in some depictions of St. Christopher in Eastern art he is shown with a dog’s head. There is a reason for this though …

The legend is that St. Christopher was very handsome and was therefore continually pestered by women – how awful this must have been. So he prayed to be given a dog’s head as protection.

Back in ancient Egyptian times there was also the cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis.

Well with all of this, no wonder a dog is Man’s Best Friend …

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