# Dog-headed ape *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Aug 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Sikozu Sta.-Ana *01 Aug 2003, 08:48* "Dog-headed ape" (CYNOCEPHALUS) is the baboon, known in the ancient world as a symbol of the barbarian hordes and the wild lands. St. Christopher, defender of the Faith, was a baboon who was converted to Christianity. No, I'm not making this up. Look it up yourself if you doubt it. Anyway, there's a whole book on the motif of the dog in Eurasian myth, from Asia to India to Europe, called MYTHS OF THE DOG-MEN. Anyone wants the cite I can pass it on (right now in the wrong place to do so). sikozu http://www.xanga.com/home.asp?user=bananna69 ``` This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. - Dorothy Parker -- ``` ---