DOG IN ART AND SYMBOLISM. Haydn's Dictionary says of the dog, it was worshipped by the Egyptians and hated by the Hebrews.° With the ancient Egyptians Marpi, son of the god Horus, was represented as hav ing the head of a dog. The Oriental symbol ism gives the dog a position of degradation be cause these animals are the scavengers living on the filth of the people and in the Eastern cities the garbage and refuse is thrown into the street for the dogs to care for. Being un domesticated, these animals run wild in packs and become often, when starving, rabid and vicious and are permitted existence by Orientals only as serving to cleanse the neighborhood of offal. Hence the mention of the °friend of man' in Holy Writ is rare and, contrary to Occidental symbolism, always made in an evil sense. We find, in ancient Roman dwellings, a chained dog depicted (generally in mosaic) and the words acave canem' — beware of the dog—on the threshold. Assyrian sculptures are extant representing the greyhound and the mastiff. In European symbolism the dog is an emblem of fidelity and loyalty, and for this reason was placed at the feet of the effigies of married women upon sepulchres. Husen beth says that in ecclesiastical art the following saints have been pictured accompanied by a dog: Saint Bernard (abbot) has a dog at his feet; Saint Wendelin is pictured keeping sheep, a dog at his feet, or held by a cord; Saint Benignus has a dog by his side; Saint Roch has been portrayed as a pilgrim, a dog near him with a loaf of bread in his month, or a dog licking his feet; Saint Domenic has been repre sented with a dog firing a globe with a torch; Saint Parthenius has been pictured killing a mad dog by the sign of the cross; Saint God frey of Amiens has been represented with a dead dog lying near him ; Saint Sim has been pictured with dogs about her. Sirius or Canic
ula is known as the 'do -star' and figures in the constellation Canis Major ('larger dog'). In the Chinese zodiacal system a dog is the sign of the month of September. In ceramics the amateur collector and the auctioneer use the term 'dog of Fo' to designate a fantastic animal figuring in ornament and decorative composition; but it is intended as a lion ('lion of the Korea') not a dog and is usually ac ompanied by a sphere. The Japanese use the devi under the term Shishi. It is an almost necessary panion to the statue of Buddha, and in the mythology is the guardian of temples and donielltar thresholds, as an em blem of peace, or trap gnu