WOLF MEDIA NEWS 12/18/2009

1) The novel that inspired the
hit anime that premiered last year,
called, Spice and Wolf, is out
in the U.S.

http://www.amazon.com/Spice-Wolf-Vol-Isuna-Hasekura/dp/075
9531048/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261180802&sr=8
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It is by Hasekura isuna, and it is
about a trader by the name of Craft
Lawrence, and his traveling companion,
a harvest wolf goddess by the name of
Holo.

The story takes place in a Victorian-like
era and deals with issues of nature, politics,
economics and religion. It is a book that
isn't to be missed.

The first season of the anime is released
in the U.S. on Dec. 22, and the manga is
released next year in the states.
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2) Here were two books that one of our supporters
brought to our attention. Passages that we found
of interest are below:

A) The Druid Animal Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+Druid+Animal+Oracle&x=0&y=0

has to do with Tarot, but it does have neat depictions of animals that are factual and based on
legends.

The wolf is in here. It represents learning, intuition, and the Shadow.
The Shadow is about being in touch with the inner-self.

The Tarot card in particular had a wolf near the Findhorn river in Scotland. That
is where the last wolf died in Scotland in 1743.

Faoilleach, is the wolf month, also known as February.

The book also goes into some really neat information as well.

They put one quote in here that was really good:

'The sign-bearing wolf shall lead his troops,
and surround Cornwall with his tail.' -- The Prophecies of Merlin

One of the Gaelic names that this book mentions happens to be Madadh-Allaidh.

There are others in Gaelic such as:

CONALL m Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Means "strong wolf" in Gaelic...

CONAN m Irish
Means "little wolf" or "little hound" from Gaelic cú "wolf, hound" combined with a diminutive suffix

CONRÍ m Irish
Means "wolf king" in Irish Gaelic.

CUÁN m Irish
Means "little wolf" or "little hound" from the Irish element cú "wolf, hound" combined with a diminutive suffix.

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The book goes on with more information about how King Cormac of Ireland was protected
by a she-wolf and therefore had a soft spot for wolves as a result.

Wolves followed him wherever he went. And one of his gifts to the Wales of the
goddess Ceridwen was a wolf-cub.

The book goes on to mention how in the book, The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth,
shows how Merlin is accompanied in the forest by a dying wolf. He regarded the wolf as
wise and age whitened the wolf's fur first which was why it was so white and pure.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+Life+of+Merlin&x=20&y=16

This book then goes into how both Scottish and Irish people use the wolf as a totem.

A couple Scottish clans use the wolf as a totem, such as the MacLennans and Mac Tyres (which
mean Son of the Wolf), and MacMillans (which means Servant of the Wolf). It goes on to say
how the personal name Fillan means 'little wolf', derived from the Gaelic term Faolan. Wales people's
names: Bledyn, Bleddri, and Bleiddudd all come from Blaiddn (which means wolf).

One whole tribe in Ireland claimed being originated from wolves and even adopting tamed wolves as
godfathers and godmothers.

B) Animals as Teachers and Healers by Susan Chernak McElroy

'If myths tell us that all predatory animals are cruel and merciless, how do we feel about ourselves,
the supreme predator?' -- pg. 222

'But as hunters and gatherers became shepherds, and farmers, the mythic wolf's positive attributes
faded....However, from a more spiritual or psychological perspective , as humans struggled with the trappings of agri-based,
civilized life, primitive urges became increasingly shameful in the new social order. Wildness in any form was
not seen as a virtue but rather some old scary afterthought from a beastly time in humanity's past.
Wolves became a dramatic symbol and a frightening reminder of wildness and uncontrollable primitiveness.
During medieval times and throughout the times of the Inquisition, as people fought with the conflicting concepts of civilization
and witchcraft, of sin and heavenly redemption, men and women were accused in epidemic proportions of being werewolves.
These were demonic creatures who symbolized people falling to their lowest and most depraved natures.' -- pg.226

'It's easy to blame things on the outside of ourselves when we fear change. Again it was clear that the wolf issue
had little to do with wolves.' -- pg. 233

"What is not useful is vicious." -- Cotton Mather 'Our national parks were established not as secure and permanent
strongholds for wilderness or wildlife but rather, according to official national park policy, for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people.' -- pg. 233-244

'Barry Lopez writes of a later and even more devastating chapter in the history of humans and wolves that helped
plant the seeds for the eventual whole slaughter of wolves on our continent. In the 1600s, 'philosopher' Rene Descartes
articulated the belief that animals had no souls, were essentially living machines, and were put on earth
specifically for human use. Therefore, according to Descartes, humans need not feel guilty about killing
animals, because such killing bore no moral consequences. This belief was enthusiastically embraced by the Catholic
Church, then busy denouncing paganism. Paganism in general held that animals had spirits, did not belong to humans, and
should not be thoughtlessly killed. The power of Cartesian 'logic' both then and now cannot
be overestimated. It still flourishes today and has invaded all of our sciences and many of our religious traditions
with a distorted sense of self-importance and universal lordship over a "soul-less planet." Cartesian 'logic' substantiates
the Christian interpretation of human domination, rather than stewardship, of the earth and all its beings. It has
served as the green light for the slaughter and extinction of countless species. And it paved the way for the remorseless
massacre and brutal torture of thousands, perhaps millions, of wolves in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.' -- pg. 228

'With the moral and historical justification of a wilderness that needed taming, and righteous biblical vengeance against
the "beast of waste and desolation," as Theodore Roosevelt later 'baptized', the wolf, Americans began slaughtering
wolves in an extensive predator-control campaign. The destruction of the wolf in America in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries would reach an unprecedented scale.' -- pg. 229

'In the ranching community today, hatred for the wolf is still strong, a sentiment I find difficult to comprehend. I wanted answers,
so I brought my questions to my friend and former husband. Bill is an Idaho native from a strong ranching background who was
once himself a trapper of predators. Bill's father was a government predator-control hunter, and his cousin sill traps for the
government. If anyone could answer my questions honestly about wolf hatred from the perspective of a rancher, a trapper, a
hunter, it is Bill. "Why all the hatred?" I asked him. "Why all the frenzy about livestock being slaughtered and the big game going
away? Wasn't there plenty of big game when the first settlers arrived and wolves were thick in virtually every part of the
continent? Aren't wolves and ranchers coexisting in Minnesota (not so since efforts to delist
them are possibly underway) and Canada?"
"It's fear," Bill answered simply and honestly. "Just about none of these ranchers around here have ever seen a wolf. My dad
never saw one--they were all dead by the time he took up trapping. It's the stories, handed down for a hundred years.
Stories about animals that are huge and strong and smart. It wasn't easy to get rid of them. But it's not so much even what
wolves do. It's what a few wolves could do if they wanted to. And it's fear about more government control.
Ranchers hate it when the government meddles in ranching business." -- pg. 232

"It isn't about compensation," Norman responded. "It's about control of public [and private..] lands, about change. People deeply
fear change and loss of control. Because wolves go where they want and do want, they represent chaos or loss of order -- our
order that is. We're not comfortable with chaos in our lives." -- pg. 237

'Perhaps the time has arrived for us to sit down and "take our place" at nature's table and share bread
with the many animal nations already seated there for centuries without us. Perhaps the animals will forgive us
our long absence and welcome us back. And perhaps they will rejoice that their lost brothers and sisters have at last
returned to their souls' true home.' -- pg. 242

Oh Great Spirit

In the name of Raven. In the name of Wolf. In the name of
Whale. Who have taught us. Who have guided us. Who have
sustained us.
Who have healed us.

Please heal the animals.

In the name of Raven. In the name of Wolf. In the the name of Whale.
In the name of Snake. Whom we have slaughtered. Whom we have feared.
Whom we have caged. Whom we have persecuted. Whom we have slandered. Whom we have
cursed. Whom we have tortured.

Please protect the animals.

In the name of Raven. In the name of Wolf. In the name of Whale.
In the name of Snake. Whose habitat we have stolen. Whose territory
we have plundered. Whose feeding grounds
we have paved or netted. Whose domain we have poisoned. Whose
young we have killed. Whose young we have killed. Whose
lives and ways of life we threaten. Please restore the animals.

In the name of Raven. In the name of Wolf. In the name
of Whale. In the name of Snake.

Forgive us. Have mercy. May they return. Not
as a resurrection, but as living beings. Here. On this earth
that is also theirs.

Oh Great Spirit. Please heal the animals. Please protect animals.
Please restore the animals.

So our lives may also be healed. So our souls may return.
So our spirits may also be restored.

Oh spirit of Raven. Oh spirit of Wolf. Oh spirit of
Whale. Oh spirit of Snake.

Teach us again, how to live. -- Deena Metzger (The Soul of Nature)
pg, 243-244

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