Canary Islands dogs, mummified them and treated dogs generally as holy animals. The ancient Greeks also knew about a people, living far to the west, who are the "dog-headed ones", who worshipped dogs on an island. Some hypothesize that the Canary Islands dog-worship and the ancient Egyptian cult of the dog-headed god, Anubis are closely connected but there is no explanation given as to which one was first. Other theories speculate that the name comes from the Nukkari Berber tribe living in the Moroccan Atlas, named in Roman sources as "Canarii", though Pliny again mentions the relation of this term with dogs.
Religion in the Canary Islands Canary Islands is the religious organization that brings together the associations and communities of the Canarian archipelago, with an estimated 70,000 Muslims living in the Canary Islands with 40 mosques and places of worship. long of the archipelago. The Judaism came to the Canary Islands in the 15th century with the conquest, from the converted Jews who moved from the Iberian Peninsula and who would continue practicing their ancient religion in secret. Originally, the Canarian Jews used to reside mainly in the islands of Tenerife and La Palma, it is known that the mother of the future Catholic saint, José