Hee. The dog owner who said that to me was Hispanic so maybe ‘cholo’ was her accent leaking through. I think I’ll stick to ‘X-dog.’
Just noticed this thread. The spirit guide (in La Divina Comedia, not the movie) is called Virgil (Virgilio), not Dante. Dante is the guy who got booted out of Florence and wrote the Commedia. Just saying.
PS as a non-Christian, it is not Virgil who is able to lead Dante to God. Not sure what Dante would have thought about Mesoamerican religion, but probably something similar.