what does it represent in mythology?
According to the Pawnee creation myth, the wolf was the first animal brought to Earth
Wolf
In the Pawnee creation myth, the wolf was the first animal brought to Earth
from where does the word 'wolf' come from? From Old English. what do they prey on? Large sized wild herbivorous hoofed mammals.
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Wolf [SEP] In folklore, religion and mythology
In the Pawnee creation myth, the wolf was the first animal brought to Earth. When humans killed it, they were punished with death, destruction and the loss of immortality. For the Pawnee, Sirius is the "wolf star" and its disappearance and reappearance signified the wolf moving to and from the spirit world. Both the Pawnee and Blackfoot call the Milky Way the "wolf trail". The wolf is also an important totem animal for the Tlingit and Tsimshian. In Chinese astronomy, the wolf represents Sirius as the "blue beast" and the star itself is called the "heavenly wolf". In China, the wolf was traditionally associated with greed and cruelty and wolf epithets were used to describe negative behaviours such as cruelty ("wolf's heart"), mistrust ("wolf's look") and lechery ("wolf-sex").