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Ruru - a dog; one of the Bhairavas, a manifestation of Shiva. In Hindu faith, Sarama is a mythological being referred to as the dog of the gods, or Deva-shuni. Sarameya (literally, "sons of Sarama") are the children of Sarama, whose names are Shyama and Sabala. Sharvara is an ancient Hindu mythical dog belonging to Yama.
They call the American scrappers "teufel hunden," which, in English, means "devil dogs." [ b ] The American press immediately seized upon the new term, and it was used on a Marine Corps recruiting poster by Charles Buckles Falls in July 1918, showing an American bulldog chasing a German dachshund wearing a pickelhaube .
Of the 36 deceased dogs in the survey, the oldest dog was 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 years old. [6] There is a known case where a Schipperke lived to be 18 to 19 years old. Nonetheless, inactivity, lack of exercise, and over-feeding are very harmful, and can lead to joint and skeletal problems and tooth, heart, lung, or digestive conditions.
A typical depiction of the Devil in Christian art. The goat, ram, dog and pig are consistently associated with the Devil. Detail of a 16th-century painting by Jacob de Backer in the National Museum, Warsaw. Daeva (Zoroastrianism) Dagon (Semitic mythology) Dajjal (Islamic eschatology) Dantalion (Christian demonology) Danjal (Jewish mythology)
Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol
Sharvara and Shyama are described to be two ferocious, four-eyed dogs that guard the entrance to the palace of Yama. The dead are required to get past these dogs in order to be rendered judgement by their master. [8] They are referred to as Mithūdṛśā, meaning that they are not both capable of sight at the same time. [9]
(Argentina) a derogatory term for Bolivians (bolita means little ball or marble) Bombay (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei) A person of Asian Indian (i.e., Hindi, etc.) descent Boofer (Hawaii) Polynesian word for African American Bougnoule (France) a pejorative term for Arab and North-African people Bozgor
Shvana (Sanskrit: श्वान, romanized: Śvāna), a Sanskrit word meaning a dog, finds repeated references in Vedic and later Hindu mythology, and such references include the following: The female dog of Indra, a Vedic god, is named Sarama, and it is mentioned in the Rigveda. Its offspring became the watchdogs of Yama, Sharvara and Shyama.