[Aztlan] Yucatec /tzul/, Venus, and dog

[Justin Kerr]

Dear All,
I would suggest that there is some evidence for dog being connected with the
events that involve the other world. 
For example, in all of the Maya scenes, which I believe are funerary, a dog
is seen accompanying the litter. See K594, 5534, 6317, and 7613 in the Maya
Vase Database. See also K6693 in Portfolio for a Colima reclinaro in the
form of a dog. Reclinaros are found in Colima shaft tombs, supposedly the
head of the deceased rests on these objects.  Skeletons of dogs have been
found in burials as well. 
Justin Kerr

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Some have speculated that the 'dog' connection is there for the
same reason that a dog guards the approaches to the underworld
in Eurasia (Greek etc.), namely that dogs hang around the grave
of a master for a long time.   That may or may not be a correct
explanation in this case.

Best wishes,
Lloyd Anderson
Ecological Linguistics


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