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The Sun, called in Celtic mythology Sunna (fem.), lives in constant dread of being devoured by the wolf Fenris. It is this contest with the wolf to which eclipses are due. According to this mythology, the sun has a beautiful daughter who will one day reign in place of her mother, and the world will be wholly renovated.
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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah Chapter 11, verses 6-12
King James Version
Bible
Bartleby
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Wolf-Month - The Saxon name for January, because "people are wont always in that month to be in more danger of being devoured by wolves than in any other."
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Wolf
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Bartleby
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The Wolf or Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) is a mammal of the Canidae family and the ancestor of the domestic dog.
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In the northern hemisphere, human encroachment on their habitat and persecution of the animals themselves have drastically reduced their range. The wolf is today frequently in the line of fire in conflicts between many different interests: Tourism/Industry, City/Country as well as Conservation/Exploitation.
As the wolf is a top predator the state of the wolf can frequently be seen as a state of the land where it lives.
Wikipedia
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As when a prowling wolf,
Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve,
In hurdled cotes amid the field secure,
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold;
Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash
Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors,
Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault,
In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles;
So clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold:
So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb.
Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,
The middle tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life
Thereby regained, but say devising death
To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought
Of that life-giving plant, but only used
For prospect what, well used, had been the pledge
Of immortality.

Paradise Lost (l. Bk. IV, l. 183-201
John Milton
Bartleby
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Gov. Frank Murkowski on Friday waded into the predator control battlefield while he put his firm stamp on the Alaska Board of Game.
Murkowski swept out six of the seven Game Board members appointed by the previous governor, Tony Knowles, and replaced them with his own picks. His new members include well-known supporters of state wolf kills as a tool to boost big game populations.

Anchorage Daily News/ShootersForum 18.Jan.03
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Terrible news from Alaska.
The anti-conservation Board of Game has just voted to allow up to 900 wolves to be killed by the barbaric practice of aerial gunning. This is six times as many as were killed last winter.
Easy targets against fallen snow, wolves can be gunned down from airplanes or chased to exhaustion, then shot at point blank range.
We're counting on your support to help stop the aerial killing of wolves in Alaska.

Defenders of Wildlife
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Wolves are so prominent in our folktales and mythologies because they were once prominent in our lives, they were the representatives of natural selection, they were the culling hand of nature, and they or something like them drove us to the means and abilities that gave us this brief moment of total domination. Now we're losing that grip on things, and the weaker of us, the petulant and childish would happily take everything down with us as we go.
How much honor is there in shooting wolves from a helicopter? None, but there's none there to lose anyway. It's not about honor it's about sadism - not just against the wolf but what the wolf represents, and against those of us who honor what the wolf is and represents.
Not just beauty and nobility - rather it's the force of nature, of life and living, that created that beauty, the strength and necessity that made both of us what we are. We raise our childen in environments that are not just artificial, but human, human-created and human-controlled, so that the world, and life, seem to be things that human beings own and control. The arrogant mistake that that is will catch most of us completely by surprise, with no time to adjust to it, and no chance of returning toward what's really there.
It's all "natural" as the semi-enlightened sportsmen like to say, meaning there isn't a line between the obvious natural world the wolf still inhabits, and the concrete and plastic on all sides reality most of us see every day. There was no line that got crossed, there is no line that has to be crossed to move from this artificial landscape to one that's stripped down to its elements, in which most of us wouldn't last three days without massive amounts of technology to protect us.
It's no wonder there's so much hatred, animosity, bitterness, toward what are so clearly superior creatures, and the superior ways of living of the people who live close to them. The crowing triumph of weak men pointing to the Inuit use of snowmobiles, of the wolves' long tradition of eating human stragglers, and raiding flocks. It's also no wonder that that animosity should be so disgusting once it's seen for what it is - the triumph of cowardice, with nowhere else to go.
It should be stressed that the purpose of "boosting big game populations" has nothing to do with the animals themselves, has even less to do with the animals themselves than the hunters' desire to kill them and photograph the bodies, but it does have everything to do with the money those hunters bring to Alaska, and to the bank accounts of the "supporters" of "wolf kills as a tool to...etc."
These guys don't care about wolves or caribou or grizzlies or any other thing as much as their own bank accounts and self-esteem, first, second, and third; letting people like that have the final say on whether anything lives or dies let alone creatures as noble as wolves is obscene, and harmful in the long run to all of us.