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Another pixel art dog, the national dog of Mexico- the Xolo. They are a favorite of mine, I have a soft spot for these independent primitive breeds.

Day 21. The prompt today was Mesoamerican mythology. I ran into a problem with this one; mainly, there seems to be a huge gap in the scholarship about folkloric monsters in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. Oh, sure, I found lots of gods and the like, but defining gods as monsters seems like dodgy territory to me. If anyone knows of non-divine supernatural creatures or spirits from those cultures, please send them my way, because now I have The Curiosity.

In light of not finding a huge amount of material to work from, I went with the idea that dogs, and specifically the Xoloitzcuintli dog, was believed to be a guide to the underworld. Now, psychopomps aren’t monsters strictly speaking, and the god associated with the dogs, Xolotl, isn’t a monster either, but there you go.

Dry media to mitigate page buckling.

DISNEY DOG BREEDS

American Cocker Spaniel (Lady and the Tramp, 1955)

Basset Hound (The Great Mouse Detective, 1986)

Bloodhound (Lady and the Tramp, 1955)

Dalmatian (101 Dalmatians, 1961)

Irish Wolfhound (The Fox and the Hound, 1981)

Jack Russell Terrier (Oliver and Company, 1988)

Old English Sheepdog (The Little Mermaid, 1989)

Poodle (Oliver and Company, 1988)

Pug (Pocahontas, 1995)

Scottish terrier (Lady and the Tramp, 1955)

St. Bernard (Peter Pan, 1953)

Xoloitzcuintle (Coco, 2017)