Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

CORPSES OF DOGS AND MEN 

Symbols of the lower will and the lower mind, both being illusory and impermanent, and without true life.

"He who digs out of the earth most corpses of dogs and men has greatest joy." - Vendidad, III.

The corpse of man signifies the personality which is the lower equivalent of the Individual in its latent state, and, as it were, dead. Tho "digging for corpses of dogs and men" is the effort which is successfully inade to seek the Self, and the reference to dog and man is the insistence upon the aspects of will and intellect, which are essential to the finding of the Self. The "corpses" sought are of “dogs and men because the Self is found, or the Individuality is developed, through will (dog) and mind (man). As the personality is apprehended as a corpse, and as the soul is, as it were, self-consciously realised, the raising of the self through the Self is rendered possible.  

See Also

DOG
EARTH
MAN
SELF
WILL