Wolves were predatory competitors with early man and wolves symbolized ferocity, cunning, stealth, malevolency and even grievous - but because of their close-knit arrange activity wolves also represented loyalty, courage, fidelity and victory. The tendency of wolves to hunt at dusk and daybreak and to communicate by howling at night in some cases caused wolves to be related with the fiber or dominate world, shape-shifters and malevolent or grievous spirits. They symbolized fear of the night, darkness, and even demonic possession. At the same tine men could not support but admire the skill and success of the wolf pack.
In Celtic myth, the sun is eaten by a wolf. In the Norse myths, the colossus wolf Fenrir is bicentric to the prophetic end of Asgard, the home of the Viking Gods, a symbolisation of chaos who swallows the sun at the end of the world. Chinese tradition also portrays the wolf as rapacious and a symbolisation of lechery. There are several myths of wolves in India, including one that Ghengis Khan was descended from one.At the same time, in Norse legend the womanizer is unnameable to Odin, and to the God Apollo in Greece. The Romans venerated the wolf, because of the legend of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, existence suckled by a she-wolf after existence abandoned. The Roman God of War, Mars held the womanizer unnameable and to spot one before a battle was an prognostic of victory.
In North America the wolf is often seen as a teacher figure, a shape-shifter who mentored Shamans and a dancer symbol. Among the Shoshone, the wolf was a creator figure.
n early Christianity, Christ's symbolization as the Good Shepherd, who protects his flock, the Faithful, from predation, prefabricated the Wolf a potent symbol of Satan.
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