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I wonder when humanity went from "Wolves are cool. Let's befriend them" and "Yeah these two epic bros were raised by a wolf" over to "Wolves symbolize trickery and villains, so avoid them"?


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@graham

Kind of losing it down this wiki rabbit hole:

A bunch of peoples all look up at the brightest star in the sky and go "oh yeah that's a dog/wolf"


In Chinese astronomy Sirius is known as the star of the "celestial wolf" (Chinese and Japanese: 天狼 Chinese romanization: Tiānláng; Japanese romanization: Tenrō;[123] Korean and romanization: 천랑 /Tsŏnrang) in the Mansion of Jǐng (井宿). Many nations among the indigenous peoples of North America also associated Sirius with canines; the Seri and Tohono Oʼodham of the southwest note the star as a dog that follows mountain sheep, while the Blackfoot called it "Dog-face". The Cherokee paired Sirius with Antares as a dog-star guardian of either end of the "Path of Souls". The Pawnee of Nebraska had several associations; the Wolf (Skidi) tribe knew it as the "Wolf Star", while other branches knew it as the "Coyote Star". Further north, the Alaskan Inuit of the Bering Strait called it "Moon Dog".[124]


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Whoa, this is fascinating! Thank you.

I did not expect to see Finland hates wolves (and loves bears) and always has

I definitely did not expect to see this line:

The Pawnee, being both an agricultural and hunting people, associated the wolf with both corn and the bison; the "birth" and "death" of the Wolf Star (Sirius) was to them a reflection of the wolf's coming and going down the path of the Milky Way known as Wolf Road.

Now I have even more questions like who decided on the constellations we have, etc

That's funny to me because Finland went the other way: foxes are loved but wolves are hated. I know they're not THAT close geographically, but I'd have expected them to have similar leanings

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