Apollo the Wolf-God Monograph No. 8 — By Daniel E. Gerhenson
Daniel E. Gershensen uncovers a wide range of Apollo's links to wolves, wind-wolves, werewolves, and even to the ancient fraternities of human werewolves still remembered in parts of Europe into recent centuries. We read about the werewolf "army of the dead" that survived in Germanic folk lore as "the Wild Hunt," so faithfully recorded by the Brothers Grimm. Aristotle's Lyceum, or "wolf place", was so-named because it stood close to a temple dedicated to the wolf-god Apollo, who was also the god of knowledge. Even the English fairy tale about the Three Little Pigs, in which a wolf huff'd and puff'd to blow their houses down, is shown to be a survival from early beliefs about wind-wolves associated with Apollo in his capacity as a wind god.
"There is no doubt that the epithets of Apollo from the root lyk- are derived from the name of the wolf, and not from a root meaning "light"
Chapter titles in this revealing and well-documented study relate to:
Apollo and the Wolf;
Evidence for the Wind Wolf;
The Wolf-name in Toponymy;
Heroes of Greek Myth who bear the Wolf-name or partake in its wider context;
The Dolphin and the Wolf;
The Wolf and Death;
Werewolf-confraternities and wind evidence;
The Stoic Explanation of the epithet Lykeios;
The Trial of the werewolf named Old Thies, in 1691; Lykos and Lykeios
ISBN 0-941694-38-0
Source: Ancestral Europe
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