Legend says that for 40 days and 40 nights while Christ wandered in the wilderness, it was his custom to stop daily to pray for this fatherâs guidance. On one such occasion, after heâd finished his devotions, he opened his eyes to find a young yellow dog standing on his hind legs with his front paws raised as if speaking with the God on high. Jesus who was longing for companionship made to call the pup over, but the dog spoke to him saying ãI am called James, God has sent me to lead you deeper into the void of the desert, so that your soul may be further tested. We must go where demons haunt the torrid sands, and I am to advise you to listen not to their words or be cajoled by their fair ways.ä Where upon the yellow dog turned and walked into the blowing dust.
For the past two centuries, Christian pilgrims who have wandered too near the void tell of encounters with the yellow dog, who spoke to them of Godâs love and forgiveness while unmasking Satanâs temptations and illusions.
James of the Voidâs cult is strongest in Jordan's Wadi Rum region, with another small but vocal concentration near the coastal town of Bulla Regia in Tunisia.
On June 8, 1842, Leadbetter Ltd. of South Woolsey held their annual auction of unclaimed goods. Lot 23 was a locked and battered sea chest. Sturdy if well worn, its exotic appeal brought forth a fierce bidding competition, and in the end the unopened trunk sold for the amazing sum of 21 pounds (almost six hundred dollars in today's currency). Inside, among the tattered garments of a traveler, they found a few personal letters and an artist's portfolio and journal.
The letters dated the chest contents to the late 1600s, when its owner traveled the Middle East recording religious images from abandoned and neglected monasteries and churches.
Due to its unsubstantiated origins and its controversial religious aspects, ãDog Saintsä is presented as a work of fiction.
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