Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Heresy XI Dog God

In domesticating the wolf

We have reduced the wild ideal

To grotesque parodies of ourselfs:

And so with our Gods.

Commentary 30

In the transmissible mental disease of god ownership, the victim acquires the megalomaniacal delusion that a being supposedly representing all of his most desirable characteristics actually rules

The Entire Universe

Conversely, in the acquired personality defect of dog ownership, the sufferers seek emotional solace in a creature specifically bred to exhibit all their own worst and most childish instincts. For example, easily-bought loyalty and fawning affection; cringing obedience, alternating with loud emotional outbursts; and the tendency to bite the defenseless from behind and then run away and defecate in public.

Dog owners prefer to play god to creatures like that, rather than address their own personal and social inadequacies.

Deus es Canis Inversus.

By some supreme twist of cosmic irony the Memsahib has chosen a huge beast exactly resembling the preceding picture, much against our protestations.

Living with a dog confirms everything one suspected about the moral, intellectual, spiritual and hygienic superiority of cats, (who now spend most of their time in my wing of the mansion).