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198 - Finding the Giant Dog-Headed St. Christopher in the Bible

The Symbolic World

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The Legend of Saint Christopher

The story of saint christopher is that he was a monstrous, giant, sometimes dog faced, canaanite. The scholars will tell us that it's just all errors of transcriptions. But as we know, the manner in which symbolism happens doesn't necessarily have to account for mechanical causation by through attention. And so this, of course, now brings us to the story of saintchristopher himself.

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