David Ian Howe

The wealthy could have very specific dogs. And even in Rome, if you were a wealthy Roman citizen, you could import a fancy Egyptian greyhound and show it off. Even back then.

Yeah, like specific niche breeds.

Yeah, like specific niche breeds.

Yeah, like specific niche breeds.

Two things from the anthropological, like zoological perspective. Are dogs more beneficial to humans than not? Do you need to waste extra calories feeding the dogs or do they help you get more calories like in a hunter-gatherer setting than you would without them? That kind of varies depending on where you're at in the world and that's debated.

Two things from the anthropological, like zoological perspective. Are dogs more beneficial to humans than not? Do you need to waste extra calories feeding the dogs or do they help you get more calories like in a hunter-gatherer setting than you would without them? That kind of varies depending on where you're at in the world and that's debated.

Two things from the anthropological, like zoological perspective. Are dogs more beneficial to humans than not? Do you need to waste extra calories feeding the dogs or do they help you get more calories like in a hunter-gatherer setting than you would without them? That kind of varies depending on where you're at in the world and that's debated.

But that was interesting to me to see how different that can be.

But that was interesting to me to see how different that can be.

But that was interesting to me to see how different that can be.

But mainly through the anthropology, like cultural aspect, just seeing the sheer amount of creation stories and mythologies and oral traditions of different cultures in which dogs play a role in creation. or are there present in creation or have to do with the afterlife. Yeah, like Anubis in Egyptian mythology, when you die, he's the first one that meets you and he kind of greets you before.

But mainly through the anthropology, like cultural aspect, just seeing the sheer amount of creation stories and mythologies and oral traditions of different cultures in which dogs play a role in creation. or are there present in creation or have to do with the afterlife. Yeah, like Anubis in Egyptian mythology, when you die, he's the first one that meets you and he kind of greets you before.

But mainly through the anthropology, like cultural aspect, just seeing the sheer amount of creation stories and mythologies and oral traditions of different cultures in which dogs play a role in creation. or are there present in creation or have to do with the afterlife. Yeah, like Anubis in Egyptian mythology, when you die, he's the first one that meets you and he kind of greets you before.

He's like your chaperone to get to the rest of the gods in the underworld. And he holds that scale. A dog is judging your soul, like were you a good person or a bad person, which I find great. And then of course, the three-headed dog in Greek mythology, he keeps people in and out of the underworld, he guards it.

He's like your chaperone to get to the rest of the gods in the underworld. And he holds that scale. A dog is judging your soul, like were you a good person or a bad person, which I find great. And then of course, the three-headed dog in Greek mythology, he keeps people in and out of the underworld, he guards it.

He's like your chaperone to get to the rest of the gods in the underworld. And he holds that scale. A dog is judging your soul, like were you a good person or a bad person, which I find great. And then of course, the three-headed dog in Greek mythology, he keeps people in and out of the underworld, he guards it.

And in Mexico mythology, like a dog waits for you across the river in the first land of the dead, and then it will help you like navigate you through the lands of the dead so you don't have to do it alone.

And in Mexico mythology, like a dog waits for you across the river in the first land of the dead, and then it will help you like navigate you through the lands of the dead so you don't have to do it alone.

And in Mexico mythology, like a dog waits for you across the river in the first land of the dead, and then it will help you like navigate you through the lands of the dead so you don't have to do it alone.

And that's very common, like different versions of that myth, especially in the Americas.