Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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San Cristobal, the dog-faced saint

This fresco on a temple Sviazhsk Island (in the republic of Tatarstan, in Russia) is a San Cristobal with the face of a dog.

The truth is that there is not much docuementación in English on the saint-Orthodox icon, but according to legend (or according to legend, they told us), this icon was this face, because he was a saint so handsome that everyone admired , and asked to have a different face, no one seems to him, then God, being a pious person Cristóbal but somewhat narcissistic, gave a dog face.

Other hypotheses on the face of this Russian saint is you really have to respect the God Anubis (the Egyptian god of death), which also looked like a dog (say which culture Orthodox is closely linked with the ancient religions of the Nile delta).

Whatever the hypothesis that dog face of this saint, no less surprising and even disturbing.

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