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Juan on Juan

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The Devil in Dog Form by Barbara Allen Woods

A dog's associated with the kingdom of the dead and consequently with the devil very likely goes back to Indo European period. The Greeks had Cerberus or and Garmer from the Germanic hellhound into the Vedic sons of Sarama. Dog messengers of death Odin had two wolves, which later become dogs. Egyptians considered a dog and animal of the underworld. A newbus had the dog head Isis rolled on a dog and we have a wack. It's an Egyptian god dog thing. And then there's also the the place of the dog and superstition is revealed in land literature.

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