The Origins of why Dogs are linked to our Deaths

Dogs have been used in funeral rites across Indo-European culture, and these rituals explain many things, such as why dogs are in the Wild Hunt and with Death Gods, but it also explains why our ancestors believed dogs took our "souls" into the other world.

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