Book: BLACK DOG BY THE TEAR RIVER

The dog's relationship to the afterlife is a general theme, reflected in a number of more specific motifs. Note the following:
1. The dog helps to achieve the world of the dead or facilitates existence in this world.
2. In particular, he transports the deceased across the river.
3. The condition for help, admission to another world or the absence of afterlife punishment is a good attitude towards dogs during life. This motive is all the more significant because the actual attitude towards dogs in areas where this motive is recorded is indifferent or cruel[8].
4. The dog is the owner, inhabitant, guardian of the afterlife.
5. In order for the dogs to let the deceased pass or help him, he must appease them with food and / or have a weapon to fight off them.
6. The dog of the afterlife is on the Milky Way, associated with it.
7. In the afterlife there are special villages of dogs or there is a special trail designed for dogs.
8. In the world of the dead or on the way to it there are reservoirs of tears