In South America the Chibcas... regarded the dog as the “daughter of the moon” and the complement to man, whom they believed to be the “son of the sun.” They imaged the dog as possessing all the virtues which man was sent into the world to learn and minus all the vices by which man was disfigured. Thus the dog was the ideal of the perfect human.
—M.O. Howey
The Cults of the Dog
Essex, England: C.W. Daniel, 1972