Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth
Dogs have occupied a powerful place in Mesoamerican folklore and myth since at least the Classic Period right through to modern times. A common belief across the Mesoamerican region is that a dog carries the newly deceased across a body of water in the afterlife. Dogs appear in underworld scenes painted on Maya pottery dating to the Classic Period and even earlier than this, in the Preclassic, the Chupicaro buried dogs with the dead. In the great Classic Period metropolis of Teotihuacan, 14 human bodies were deposited in a cave, most of them children, together with the bodies of three dogs to guide them on their path to the underworld.
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Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth
Dogs have occupied a powerful place in Mesoamerican folklore and myth since at least the Classic Period right through to modern times. A common belief across the Mesoamerican region is that a dog carries the newly deceased across a body of water in the afterlife. Dogs appear in underworld scenes painted on Maya pottery dating to the Classic Period and even earlier than this, in the Preclassic, the Chupicaro buried dogs with the dead. In the great Classic Period metropolis of Teotihuacan, 14 human bodies were deposited in a cave, most of them children, together with the bodies of three dogs to guide them on their path to the underworld.
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Dogs have occupied a powerful ...... y was taken by the coyote, ua.
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I cani hanno occupato un ruolo ...... o era occupato dal coyote, ua.
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Dogs have occupied a powerful ...... their path to the underworld.
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I cani hanno occupato un ruolo ...... nella strada per l'oltretomba.
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Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth
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I cani nel folklore e nella mitologia mesoamericana
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