Their is a deeper meaning to the appellation “Dogs are mans best friend”!. The church of rome at inception was vicariously against “astrology” and ‘astronomy” and was condemned by the earliest leaders. However, according to the “Troparion” of the eastern orthodox church we read…….

“Your birth, O Christ our God,
dawned the light of knowledge upon the earth.
For by Your birth those who adored stars
were taught by a star
to worship You, the Sun of Justice,
and to know You, Orient from on High.
O Lord, glory to You.”

      Its a common and well known established fact by writers in antiquity to acknowledge the fact that the “star in the east” and the 3 ‘magi’ that followed are THE STAR SIRIUS AND THE 3 BELT STARS OF ORION. A close scrutiny of the etymology regarding the word “magi” will uncover the root word “ASTER” which is greek for the word ‘star’.
 

      Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, Vol. I – “It was the object of wonder and veneration to all ancient peoples.” Perhaps, now where on Earth has Sirius maintained a longer and more consistent tradition than in ancient Mesopotamia. Here in the “Cradle of Western Civilization,” the star has known many similar names/meanings: Its old Akkadian name was Mul-lik-ud, which means: “the Dog Star of the Sun.” In Babylonia, Sirius was known as Kakkab-lik-ku, which means: “Star of the Dog.” The Assyrians knew Sirius as Kal-bu-sa mas, (“the Dog of the Sun”). In Chaldea, the star was called Kak-shisha, or “the Dog Star that Leads,” and also Du-shisha, “the Director.” The later Persians referred to Sirius as Tir, meaning “the Arrow.”

 The magi told Herod that they saw the star “in the East,”^[56] ”at its rising”,^[11] which may imply the routine appearance of a constellation, or an asterism. One theory interprets the phrase in Matthew 2:2, “in the east,” as an astrological term concerning a “heliacal rising.” This idea was first proposed by Heinrich Voigt in 1911,^[57]. Two modern translators of ancient astrological texts insist that the text has nothing to do with either a heliacal or an acronycal rising of a star.^[58]

“The Blazing Star in our Lodges, we have already said, represents Sirius, Anubis, or Mercury, Guardian and Guide of Souls. Our Ancient English brethren also considered it an emblem of the Sun. In the old Lectures they said: ‘The Blazing Star or Glory in the centre refers us to that Grand Luminary the Sun, which enlightens the Earth, and by its genial influence dispenses blessings to mankind. It is also said in those lectures to be an emblem of Prudence. The word Prudentia means, in its original and fullest signification, Foresight: and accordingly the Blazing Star has been regarded as an emblem of Omniscience, or the All-Seeing Eye, which to the Ancients was the Sun.[vi] – Albert Pike; Morals & Dogma

http://www.masonicdictionary.com/blazingstar.html

    Saturn was worshiped among the Egyptians under the name of Raiphan, or, as it is called in the Septuagint, Remphan. St. Stephen, quoting the passage of Amos, says, “ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan” (see Acts vii, 43).
    Hale, in his analysis of Chronology, says in alluding to this passage : “There is no direct evidence that the Israelites worshiped the dog-star in the wilderness, except this passage; but the indirect is very strong, drawn from the general prohibition of the worship of the sun, moon, and stars, to which they must have been prone.
    And this was peculiarly an Egyptian idolatry, where the dog-star was worshiped, as notifying by his heliacal rising, or emersion from the sun’s rays, the regular commencement of the periodical inundation of the Nile. And the Israelite sculptures at the cemetery of Kibroth-Hattaavah, or graves of lust, in the neighborhood of Sinai, remarkably abound in hieroglyphics of the dog-star, represented as a human figure with a dog’s head. That they afterwards sacrificed to the dog-star, there is express evidence in Josiah’s description of idolatry, where the Syriac Mazaloth (improperly, termed planets) denotes the dog-star; in Arabic, Mazaroth.”Fellows (in his Exposition of the Mysteries, page 7) says that this dog-star, the Anubis of the Egyptians, is the Blazing Star of Freemasonry, and supposing that the 1atter is a symbol of Prudence, which indeed it was in some of the ancient lectures, he goes on to remark ; ”What connection can possibly exist between a star and prudence, except allegorically in reference to the caution that was indicated to the Egyptians by the first appearance of this star, which warned them of approaching danger.”
 

 Job 38:32  Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 

Mazzaroth – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Translation

       The word is traditionally (following LXX) left untranslated (ABC, ACV, AKJ, ASV, BBE, BIB, ESV, GNV, HNV, JPS, K21, KJG, KJR, KJV, NAB, NKJ, NRS, NWT, RSV, RWB, TMB, TNK, UPD, WEB, YLT, LXE, ZIK), but some modern English Bible translations render it as “zodiac” (AMP, CJB, EMP, LEE); others have “constellations” (CJB, CSB, DBY, NET, ERV, GWN, LEE, LIT, MKJ, NAS, NAU, NIB, NIV, TNV, WEV) or “stars” (CEV, NCB, NIR, NLV, TEV).
But as the Latin Vulgate renders the word as “luciferum”, there are alternative English translations as“morning star” (CVB, TRC, also Luther‘s 1545 German translation, as Morgenstern); “day star” (DRA); “Venus”(MSG); “Crown season” (NJB); “sequence of seasons”(NLT); “Lucifer, ‘that is, dai sterre (day star)” (Wycliffe’s Bible).WES^{[clarification needed]} gives “stars in the southern signs”.

Sirius: The Bright and Morning Star
Authors: Lanneau, J. F.
Journal: Popular Astronomy, vol. 19, pp.393-398

    “Sirius, viewed in any phase, poetic, scientific, historic, or messianic, is ‘chief leader’ of all the glittering host of heaven. Their is full warant for the metric outburst historically: HAIL MIGHTY SIRIUS, MONARCH OF THE SUNS“.

Re 2:28  And I will give him the morning star.

Re 22:16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

2Pe 1:19  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Ac 7:43  Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

    According to Homer (in The Iliad), King Priam of Troy, observed Sirius from the rampart walls as Achilles aproached from the plain beyond, and stated at the sight: “Blazing as the star that cometh forth at Harvest-time, shining forth amid the host of stars in the darkness of the night, the star who’s men call Orion’s Dog. Brightest of all is he…” By early autumn (harvest-time) Sirius was well above the eastern horizon, given the amount of precession occurring in the last 4000 years. Homer also referred to Sirius as the “Star of Autumn.” Although, today, we generally associate it with the winter sky, when it rises at sunset. Plutarch called Sirius “the Leader.” The classical Greeks associated Sirius with the scorching heat of summer, rising earlier each day before the sun as the days of summer advanced. In face, the name we now use, Sirius, derives from the word: Seirios, which means “the Scorcher.” As these civilizations recognized Sirius’ constellation as the Great Dog, the term “Dog Days” came into being, and this term is still in use to this day to conote the hottest days of late summer, typically August. The Romans continued this tradition. The poet, Virgil, writing in the first century BCE, in The Aeneid, states: ”the Dog Star, that burning constellation, when he brings drought and disease to sickly mortals, rises and saddens the sky with inauspicious light.” In ancient times, the color of Sirius was often referred to as red, reddish, or ruddy, and the star was sometimes calley Bloody, and referred to as Blazing like fire. (Although blazing may have simply been a reference to its brightness). Was Sirius red in ancient times? Did its color change over the last several thousand years? This is yet another mystery associated with the brightest of stars, Sirius. In The Iliad, Homer referres to Sirius gleaming like Achilles’ copper shield. Earlier, the Babylonians referred to Sirius as Kak-si-di, which meant “shining like copper.” Granted both writings were done during the bronze age, when copper was the commonly used metal, and so would have perhaps been a common metaphor for something shiny or brilliant. However, both the Greek writer Aratus, and the Roman poet and writer Cicero referred to Sirius’ color as ”ruddy.” Seneca, Nero’s tutor, stated that Sirius was “redder than Mars” and compared it to Jupiter which he states is not at all red, (Mars is quite reddish, while Jupiter has a distinct yellowish tint to the naked eye.) Another clue is the fact that in the days of ancient Rome, “ruddy dogs” were sacrificed to the “Dog Star”, Sirius; (ruddy dogs, and dog star seem to indicate some connection with color). Even more telling is a statement by Ptolomy, one of the greatest natural scientists and geographers of Roman history, who compares Sirius with Betelgeuse and Antares, two indisputably red colored stars, (and red giants), as all being fiery red.

 ”Sirius, or Serios, was the most important star in the ancient world. It was so important during one period of Egyptian history that some documents refer to Egypt itself as the Seriadic Land, after the Greek name for the star. Norman Lockyer, the 19th-century astronomer and specialist in temple orientation, surveyed no fewer than seven ancient Egyptian temples which were oriented to Sirius.”
(The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital, David Ovason, pg. 139)

 “Josephus has preserved a tradition concerning two pillars that were erected in the land of Siriad. He tells us that the children of Seth were the inventors of astronomy, and in order that their inventions might not be lost, and acting “upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of waters, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone; they inscribed their discoveries upon them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood,  the pillar of stone might remain and exhibit those discoveries to mankind, and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them: Now this remains in the Land ofSiriad to this day” . (Ant. B., i, ch. 2.) Plato likewise speaks of these two columns in the opening of Timaeus The place where the two pillars, or one of them, traditionally stood was in the land of Siriad. Where that is no mortal knows, but Seri in Egyptian is a name for the south. Seri is also the mount that is figured as the two-fold rock which is equivalent to the pillars of the two horizons, south and north,  Siriad, then, we take to be the land of the south where the pillar “remains to this day.”  According to John Greaves, the old Oxford astronomer, “these pillars of Seth were in the very same place where Manetho placed the pillars of Taht (Thoth), called Seiread” (English Weights and Measures). There was an Egyptian tradition which connected Sut, the inventor of astronomy, with Annu, as the original founder of the pillar, which makes him the primary establisher of the pole. As an astronomical character Sut was earlier than Shu. The Arabs also have a tradition that one of the pyramids was the burial-place of Sut. The pillar of brick, being less permanent, went down as predicted in the deluge as a figure of the southern pole, whereas the pillar of stone remained for ever as an image of the north celestial pole, or of Annu, the site of the pillar, in the astronomical mythology. It is reported by Diodorus that Annu (Heliopolis in the solar mythos) was accounted by its inhabitants to be the oldest city in Egypt.” (Gerald Massey Ancient Egypt, The Light Of The World, 1907: Book 5, The Sign language Of Astronomical Mythology)

 ”In the Arcane Tradition, the vast star, Sirius, symbolizes the sun behind the sun, i.e. the true father of our Universe. Sirius was the primordial star of all time, as the duplicator or renewer(of time cycles). He was known in Egypt as the Doubling One, therefore a Creator or reflector of the Image. Sirius, or Set, was the original ‘headless one’ –the light of the lower region (the South) who was known (in Egypt) as An (the dog), hence Set-an (Satan), Lord of the infernal regions, the place of heat, later interpreted in a moral sense as ‘hell.’” (The Magical Revival, pg. 226-227)

       The obvious enmity within jewish theology towards “DOGS” is unquestionable. In both the old and new testament ‘dogs’ are treated as a theological ‘anathema’. The word DOG in greek is ‘kuon’ which is extremely close to a hebrew root word denoting SIHOR, the hebrew name for sirius. Its also interesting to note, one of the miracles Jesus in the NT performs, is for a woman he clearly connotates as a “DOG” (Mt.ch.15) and invoking her “great faith”. In so performing such a miracle, Jesus was transgressing a prior command he gave earlier in the text (Mt.ch 7)

 According to Egyptian records Khufu has another name – Saaru of Shaaru (Petrie’s “History of Egypt”, vol. I, p. 37). Shaaru is another designation for the inhabitants of the region of Mount Seir(Rawlinson’s “History of Egypt”, ch. 22). Khufu’s domain extended from Mount Seir to Lower Egypt.

Le 17:7  And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto SEIRIM, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

08163 שׂעיר sa‘iyr saw-eer’ or שׂער sa‘ir saw-eer’

from 08175; ;{ See TWOT on 2274 @@ “2274c”} {See TWOT on 2274 @@ “2274e”}

AV-kid 28, goat 24, devil 2, satyr 2, hairy 2, rough 1; 59

adj
1) hairy

n m
2) he-goat, buck
2a) as sacrificial animal
2b) satyr, may refer to a demon possessed goat like the swine of Gadara (#Mt 8:30-32) 

Whats most interesting about this verse in Leviticus, is that within the previous chapter the hebrews offer a sacrifice unto a “chief” seirim or rather “DOG-DEMON” that in fact is claimed by christian theologians to be a type of Christ………
 

Le 16:8  And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for theAZAZEL.

05799 עזאזל ‘aza’zel az-aw-zale’

from 05795 and 0235; n m; {See TWOT on 1593}

AV-scapegoat 4; 4

1) entire removal, scapegoat

05795 עז ‘ez aze

from 05810; n f; {See TWOT on 1654 @@ “1654a”}

AV-goat 63, kid + 01423 5, kid 4, he 1, kids + 01121 1; 74

1) female goat, she-goat, goat, kid

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/526601/scapegoat

“During the Roman feast of Lupercalia , priests (Luperci) cut thongs from the sacrificial animals (goats and a dog), then raced around the walls of the old Palatine city, striking women (especially) as they passed with the thongs. A blow from the hide of the scapegoat was said to cure sterility. In early Roman law an innocent person was allowed to take upon himself the penalty of another who had confessed his own guilt. Christianity reflects this notion in its doctrine of justification and in its belief that Jesus Christ was the God-man who died to atone”.

      It becomes astonishing clear via etymology of the OT and the historical records, that the word “SEIR” which is base cognate for SIRIUS originally has the meaning in hebrew “hairy, shaggy” which was CHANGED to apply to “goats”, but originally mustve meant……..”DOGS”. Just as the sphinx in gizeh nowhere has any characteristics of a LION, it was at the begining an effigy of ANUBIS THE DOG and had its features changed!. The romans used to sacrifice DOGS upon the helical rising of Sirius in the summer.

De 3:9  (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

 Ps 29:6  He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

      That the ‘land of shinar’ recorded in genesis is NOT refering to ‘sumer’, but to EGYPT is clearly referenced in the verse above where Mt Hermon is called SIRION, an appelation for the star Sirius and the land of Siriad, whom the amorites called it “shenir”. During the exodus of Moses, its stated that god had told Moses to CIRCUMNAMBULATE MT.SEIR……..

De 2:1  Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Whereas in the begining of the OT, Mt.Seir and its inhabitants are treated with divine respect by the diety within the book, by the end of the OT Mt.Seir and its ‘Seirians’ are condemned to complete destruction, is a classical case of changing of theology to compromise for new theology!. The hebrews were warned not to touch the land of Seir as it was given by the deity as a posession to Esau. The connection between Esau and Seir is etymologically proven. Both Sirius and Esau’s name refers to the color RED or RUDDY, HAIRY AND SHAGGY.

“This ancient people (Egyptians) knew that once every year the Parent Sun is in line with the Dog Star. Therefore, the Great Pyramid was so constructed that, at this sacred moment, the light of the Dog Star fell upon the square “Stone of God” at the upper end of the Great Gallery, descending upon the head of the high priest, who received the Super Solar Force and sought through his own perfected Solar Body to transmit to other Initiates this added stimulation for the evolution of their Godhood. This then was the purpose of the “`Stone of God,’ whereon in the Ritual, Osiris sits to bestow upon him (the illuminate) the Atf crown or celestial light.” “North and South of that crown is love,” proclaims an Egyptian hymn. “And thus throughout the teaching of Egypt the visible light was but the shadow of the invisible Light; and in the wisdom of the ancient country the measures of Truth were the years of the Most High.” [1. Marshall Adams, The Book of the Master]

 ”In Chinese and Japanese astronomy, Sirius is known as the “star of the celestial wolf”. Several aboriginal tribes of North America referred to the star in canine terms: the Seri and Tohono O’odham tribes of the southwest describe the Sirius as a “dog that follows mountain sheep”, while the Blackfoot call it “Dog-face”. The Cherokee paired Sirius with Antares as a dog-star guardian of the “Path of Souls”. The Wolf (Skidi) tribe of Nebraska knew it as the “Wolf Star”, while other branches of knew it as the “Coyote Star”. Further north, the Alaskan Inuit of the Bering Strait called it “Moon Dog”. [2. J.B. Holberg, Sirius: Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky]