Dog of Keyxosrow (A Mythical Point in one of Oral-Popular Narration of Keyxosrows Disappearance

Keyxosrow in the Shahname after the final victory over Afrasiyab, goes to a mountain and disappears. In one of the oral- popular narrations of this wonderful disappearance, Keyxosrow goes to cave with a dog. Dog is seen in some other stories that in them a person ascends to sky or lives in under world and or goes to other world and returns. Dog in ancient beliefs and stories of many nations connected with another world and is supposed guard and guide of spirits. Probably dog of Keyxosrow in Iranian oral tradition is based on this mythical and ritual motif and in fact , dog is his guard and leader in cave.