WEREWOLVES
- ParrisVstefanow
- Jul 22
- 2 min read
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat."
- Jesus Christ. Lev.26:29 .
Other convictions of the Christian clergy included the "Werewolf", which derived from the Saxon term Werwulf, like Beowulf, Bee Wolf.
The Wolf being principally identified and named after the first month of the Winter Solstice where it was let loose at doomsday to devour the Sun in Saxony.
The same popular Christian concept for "Hell" also originates from the Saxons by the Goddess Hel from where it is anglicized, with her wolves guarding Helheim, the realm of the underworld.
Hel also being a sibling to the giantess Angurboda who created Fenrir, Wolf of the North, as the firstborn Wolf-Son.
The technical term for "Lycanthrope" however, or Lycaon, is additionally named via the first Arcadian Wolf King in Greek mythology.
The early Lycaon though being regarded as a Pelasgian who existed in nine year cycles as spouse to the Moon in pre-Hellenic times.
The Roman poet Virgil likewise assumed that the first werewolf was Moeris, who was given the secrets of magic, including necromantic readiness of resurrecting the dead from the threefold fate Goddess Moirai.
The three Moirai (Fates) now found with the three Maries at the resurrection of the Sun God Jesus in the New Testament.
In prehistoric Balkan cultures of Old Europe as well, the Dog/Bitch was often considered a very sacred companion of the Moon.
In Rome, there was a Feronia festival honored to the Wolf Mother.
In France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and northern Italy, vestiges were likewise found with the Moon Goddess Hecate, Artemis and Diana, as venerated by her numerous wolf cultists during ancient and medieval times under her totem "Lupa", for who was the mother of wild animals and protector of the founders of Rome.
Later in Europe nonetheless, these aged wolf myths became largely arrogated and vastly Christianized.
Under the Inquisition, straightforward signs such as claw-like fingernails or pointed ears were all used to distinguish signs of the Lycanthrope.
The medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury believed that just basking under a full Moon was an effective method in making a metamorphose.
The famed Swiss physician Paracelsus even too considered the brain to be a "microcosmic Moon".
In early Indo-European languages, both "Moon" and "Mind" doubly became etymologically linked.
Two names for example of the Roman Goddess were "Luna" and "Mana", which later gave rise to her devotees being called Lunatics or Maniacs.
In pre-Islamic Arabia, it was the threefold Goddess "Manah". In Sanskrit "Manas" and "Mens, Menos (Moon)" in Latin was "Blood".
From this root later derived English words to the likes of:
- Mental
- Menstruation
- Menace
To the Teutons, it was a "Managarmr" (Moon-Dog) in the hunt of the Ragnarok.
The ultimate methods used to deal with werewolves were equally varied in Christian times.
French lore mostly choose to advocate an exorcism however by speaking the name of Christ the Sun of God, or calling the werewolf "three times" by his true Christian name.
Afterwards, it became the renowned silver bullet.
