Tag Archives: dog
Priest Dogs of Iran
This is a continuation of a thread on dogs. Zoroastrian funerary rituals appear to indicate that ancient Iranians believed that dogs had a unique power to discern whether the life had departed from a body. What follows next is known as the dog-sight (sagdid) ceremony. A dog, generally a “four-eyed” dog (a dog with two [...]
After the Flood
Soon after the flood, Sam returned to school, and noticed that Peter was not there. After several days, he walked to Peter’s house, and noticed that it had been vacated. He opened the gate to the backyard and saw that the flood also washed out Peter’s pond. Sam walked up to a window. He hesitated, [...]
Coevolution
After fire, the dog was the first companion to man. Unlike fire, though, man did more than tame the dog; he invented the dog. Recent formal experiments have demonstrated that dogs can read human gestures in a way that their cousins—wolves—simply cannot. How is it that dogs seem to understand us so well? It seems [...]
The Dragon’s Escape
The dragon leapt out of the coffee can and reached out to the tall, yellow August grass. It devoured the hay in big mouthfuls, sucking in the air and exhaling smoke, sending a black-haired boy, a yellow dog, and a swarm of yellow jackets flying in a whirling stinging flurry through the flaming night. Mehran [...]