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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
Just interested to hear why you chose the Capitoline Wolf for this. It was afterall just a reresentation of a part of the myth of the founding of Rome.
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It's just an example of how things change. Many ancient cultures had a favourable view towards
wolves. To Romans, wolves often had a sacred condition (on the other hand they poisoned lions with Christians at the Colosseum, but that's another story).
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Wolves appear prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures. In Norse and Japanese mythology, wolves were portrayed as almost god-like. In Japan, grain farmers worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching them to protect their crops from wild boars and deer, while the wolf Fenrir of Norse mythology was depicted as the son of Loki. Certain cultures portrayed wolves as part of their foundation myths. In Roman mythology, the Capitoline Wolf nurses the future founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. In the mythology of the Turks, Mongols and Ainu, wolves were believed to be the ancestors of their race, while the Dena’ina believed wolves were once men, and viewed them as brothers. Wolves were linked to the sun in some Eurasian cultures. The Ancient Greeks and Romans associated wolves with the sun god Apollo, while the wolf Sköll in Norse mythology was depicted pursuing the setting sun. (...)
(Wikipedia)
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Then the Monotheistic plague prevailed. And by means of one of those pathetic stockbreeding metaphors (typical of a lame mentality originated in some seedy goatf***ers' dump in the Middle East many centuries before), wolves were regarded as the embodiment of Evil. The diabolic creature, full of negative attributes, who attacks God's docile flock.
