Post by Emeraldblaze on Sept 1, 2009 14:02:42 GMT -5
THE JAGUAR AND THE LITTLE SKUNK
Once there was a gentleman jaguar and a lady skunk. Mrs. Skunk had a son, who was baptized by Mr. Jaguar, so Mrs. Skunk became his comadre. And as Mr. Jaguar had baptized the little skunk, he was Mrs. Skunk's compadre.
Mr. Jaguar decided to go looking for food and came to Mrs. Skunk's house. "Well, compadre, what are you looking for? What have you come here for?" the skunk asked the jaguar.
"Comadre, what I have come to do is to look for some food," said Mr. Jaguar. "Oh," said Mrs. Skunk.
"I want my godson to come with me so that he can learn to hunt," said Mr. Jaguar. "I don't think your godson ought to go; he's still very small and something could happen to him. He better not go, compadre," said Mrs. Skunk. But the little skunk protested: "No, mother, I had better go. What my godfather says is true. I need to get some practice, if I'm going to learn to hunt," said the little skunk.
"But if you go, you'll be so far away," said Mrs. Skunk. "I'm going, I'm going. Come on, let's go." So they set off on a long walk. "We're going to where there's a river. That's where we're going," Mr. Jaguar explained to the little skunk, his godson.
"When are we going to get there?" asked the little skunk. "We're getting close. Follow me so you won't get lost," said Mr. Jaguar. "All right," answered the little skunk. They finally came to the river. "This is where we're going to eat," said Mr. Jaguar to the little skunk. "All right," said the little skunk.
"Come on over here. I'm going to sharpen my knife," said Mr. Jaguar. "All right," said the little skunk, looking at his godfather. Mr. Jaguar sharpened his claws, which he called his "knife."
"I sharpened my knife. Now you're going to be on guard, because I am going to sleep. When you see them come, wake me up," said Mr. Jaguar.
"All right," said the little skunk, "all right, godfather." Then Mr. Jaguar told him: "Don't shout. Just scratch my belly when they come. Scratch my belly, so I won't alarm them. But don't wake me up if just any little old animals without antlers come along, only when the one with big antlers gets here. That's when you'll wake me up."
"All right," said the little skunk. Then the one with the big antlers came, and the skunk awakened Mr. Jaguar. He scratched his belly, and pointed out the deer to Mr. Jaguar, who attacked the animal with big antlers. He went after him and seized him.
"All right, my godson, let's eat. We're going to eat meat," said the jaguar. "All right," said the little skunk. And so they ate and ate. "Now we're going to take whatever leftovers there are to your mother," said the jaguar. "Since we are full, we can take something to your mother. Your mother will have meat to eat, just as we did. We will take some to your mother," said the jaguar. When they came back to the mother's house, he told the lady:
"Look at the food here. Look, we've brought you some food, the food that we hunted. Eat your fill of the meat, comadre," the jaguar said to Mrs. Skunk.
"All right," said the skunk, and ate the meat. "I'm full," she said. "It's good that you're satisfied. I've seen that you are, so I'll be leaving now," said Mr. Jaguar to Mrs. Skunk. And so he left. After the jaguar left, the little skunk stayed with his mother. When they ran out of meat, Mrs. Skunk said to her son: Dear, our meat is all gone." "Yes, the meat is all gone. I better go and get us some more food," said the little skunk. "How can you, son? Do you think you're big enough? You're very small. Don't you think you'll be killed?" asked Mrs. Skunk.
"No, mother, I already know how to hunt, my godfather taught me how," replied the little skunk. "I'm leaving now."
He left, and Mrs. Skunk was very worried. Her son came once more to the river, the place to which he had come with his godfather to get the meat.
"This is how my godfather did it. Why shouldn't I be able to do the same thing?" said the little skunk. "This is how you sharpen a knife," said the little skunk. He sharpened his "knife." "This is the way my godfather did it. I'm not going to hunt the little animals, I'm just going to hunt the one with the great big antlers. I'm going to hunt one for myself just like the one I ate with my godfather. I have my knife here and I'm going to sleep for a little while." The little skunk lay down to sleep, but then he awakened. He was waiting for the one with the big antlers, and when he came, he attacked him, thinking he was as strong as his godfather. But he just hung from the neck of the one with big antlers. His claws had dug into his skin. He was hanging from his neck and was carried far away and fell on his back. He was left with his mouth wide open.
Since he had not come home to his mother, she wondered: "What could have happened to my son? Why hasn't he come back yet? Something must have happened to him. I better go and look for him." And so Mrs. Skunk went as far as the bank of the river. She was looking everywhere for her son, but couldn't find him. She began to cry when she found the tracks where the one with the big antlers had come by running. "They must have come by here," said Mrs. Skunk, and began to follow the tracks. She came to the place where her son had been left lying on his back. When the mother caught sight of him, she noticed that his teeth were showing and shouted at him:
"Son, what are you laughing at? All your teeth are showing," she said to him before she had gotten very close. When she did get close she told him:
"Give me your hand. I've come to get you, but you're just laughing in my face." She put her hand on him, thinking that he was still alive, but when she noticed that he was already dead, she began to cry.
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THE JAGUAR AND THE DEER
A deer went to look for a place to build himself a house. There was also a jaguar who was out looking for a place to set up a house. He came to the same place the deer had chosen, and thought he would build there also.
The next day the deer came and thoroughly cleared the ground with his antlers. The tiger came later and said:
"It seems somebody is helping me." Then he stuck some big poles in the ground and set up the framework.
The next day the deer came back and when he saw this, he said: "It seems somebody is helping me."
Then he covered the house with branches and made two rooms, one for him and the other one for whomever was helping him.
The next day the jaguar saw that the house was finished. He went in one room and fell asleep. The deer came later and went to sleep in the other room.
One day the two came home at the same time. When they saw each other, the jaguar asked the deer: "Was it you who was helping me?
The deer answered: "Yes, it was me."
Then the jaguar said: "Let's live together."
"Yes, let's live together in the same house," said the deer. They went to sleep and the following morning the jaguar said:
"I'm going hunting, so sweep the floor, prepare wood and water, because I'll be hungry when I come back."
The jaguar went to the woods to hunt and got a very large deer. He brought it home and said to his companion: "Let's eat what I have caught."
But the deer didn't want to eat; he was very much afraid. He couldn't sleep all night long on account of fear. Early the next morning he went to the woods and met a very large jaguar. Later he met a large bull and said to him:
"I met a jaguar who was bad-mouthing you."
The bull went looking for the jaguar and found him resting. The bull came up to him slowly, leaped on top of him and gored him. Then the deer went off dragging the dead jaguar. When he got home, he said to his companion:
"Let's eat what I have caught."
The jaguar approached him, but he didn't want to eat; he was very frightened. That night he couldn't sleep thinking about the deer killing jaguars; and the deer couldn't sleep thinking about the jaguar killing deer. Both were very frightened.
At midnight as the deer moved his head, his antlers struck the wooden walls of the house. The jaguar and the deer were frightened by the noise, and both of them ran out of the house without stopping. And so the deer and the jaguar each went his separate way.
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Moon when Wolves run together
Long ago, an old wolf came to that time when
his life on earth could last no longer.
"My people," he said,
"You can follow in my footsteps when the time comes
for you to join me in the skyland."
Then he left the earth, climbing higher and higher,
and each place he stepped the sky filled with stars.
Shunk man-i-tu tan-ka we call the wolves,
the powerful spirits who look like dogs.
When they climb the hills to lift their heads and sing
toward that road of stars, thier songs grow stronger as they join thier voices.
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Romulus and Remus
The story of the twins, sons of the god of War, Mars. In the legend Romulus and Remus are orphaned when their mother, Silvia is imprisoned and the infants are cast into the Tiber River. They are set ashore under a fig tree and found by a she wolf and a woodpecker, animals that are sacred to Mars. The twins are fed and nursed by the animals, until Faustulus, the king's herdsman finds them and raises them with his wife. They left home to found their new kingdom on the shores of that same river where they had many years before begun their legendary lives.
As children will often do, Romulus and Remus could agree upon neither the location of the new city nor a name for it. It was during this strife that Romulus killed his twin, and thereupon built the new settlement.
Lacking for inhabitants, the new king called upon outcasts from outlying communities to come to his new homeland and to settle upon the Capitoline Hill where Romulus built a sanctuary for misfits of other communities.
But, alas, Romulus soon discovered that his city was lacking for women, and he announced that games were to be celebrated in honor of the god, Consus, and he thereby invited the Latins and the Sabines to his celebration. It was during this event that the Romans lashed out upon the virgins of the community and carried them away.
Romulus' reign was tainted with this story of the rape of the Sabine women, whose tribe, under the leadership of Titus Tatius, allegedly infiltrated the new Latin lands and battled with the inhabitants of Latium, thus forming a union of the two tribes early in the history of ancient Rome.
During the ensuing war, the Sabine women prayed for peace, and they begged that the two tribes unite and form one people, one nation. Unfortunately, the peace was short-lived, and Titus Tatius, who was at this time co-reigning with Romulus, was killed in a confrontation. Thus, Romulus continued his reign alone not only over the Latins but also over the Sabines.
His 37-year reign as the first king of Rome ended when his father, Mars, carried him away to heaven in a chariot of fire. Henceforth, Romulus demanded to be known as " Quirinus," the guardian god to the Romans.
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Legend of the Phantom Wolf
It is said that a young princess named Youkioko once lived in a castle within the woods of Japan. She was very beautiful and attracted many suitors but she wanted none of them. Youkioko made friends with animals easily. One of her best animal friends was a young female wolf affectionately named Starbright. She and Starbright shared many great adventures together. No one thought anything could separate the two and they knew in their hearts if one died the other would follow.
There were rumors of a hunter dressed in black and his faithful and intimidating black wolf. It was said that the wolf was of the shadow realm but very few people believed this rumor. One day the princess wandered into the forest and met there two. The princess feared for her life.
"What do you want with me?" she asked.
"We don't want you, but we can use you as bait for your wolf friend." said the hunter.
"What do you want with Starbright?" asked Youkioko.
"We have heard legends of the beauty of your shewolf and her pelt would sell for quite a lot." said the hunter.
His wolf growled at the princess ferociously. Before any harm could befall the princess Starbright appeared in front of her. The black wolf immediately backed off of princess Youkioko.
"Starbright!" cried the princess.
Starbright attack the black wolf. Before see could kill the black wolf the princess was fatally wounded by the hunter. Starbright fought as valiantly as she could but in the end she to was fatally wounded. With the last of her strength Starbright killed the hunter and his wolf and made it to princess Youkioko. They died in each others arms.
It is said to this day that if a young woman wanders into those woods that the scene repeats its self. Except the young woman is the one that Starbright is protecting and this time Starbright chases them off and leads the woman to safety.
Some say that history is repeating its self because of Starbright's grief over not being able to rescue the princess.
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Aeosp's Fables: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
One day a wolf found a sheep's skin. He wrapped himself in it and sneaked into a sheep pen. He ate a lamb. He was sneaking up on a second lamb when the shepherd caught him.
"Don't throw me out," said the wolf.
"I'm one of your sheep."
"You're only pretending to be a sheep," said the shepherd.
"I'm no fool. I know you're really a wolf."
"How do you know?" asked the wolf.
"I look like a sheep."
"You say you are a sheep," said the shepherd,
"but you act like a wolf."
The shepherd pulled a limb from a tree and beat the wolf with it. The wolf
leaped the fence and climbed a nearby hill.
He never went back to the sheep pen.
Aesop's Fables
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Aeosp's Fables: The wolf and his shadow
Roaming by the mountainside at sundown, a wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself,
-"Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the lion? Ought I not to be acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?"
While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a lion fell upon him and killed him. He exclaimed with a too late repentance,
-"Wretched me! this overestimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."
by Aeosp
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The lion, the wolf, and the fox
A lion, growing old, lay sick in his cave. All the beasts came to visit their king, except the fox.
The wolf therefore, thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the fox to the lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over them all and of not coming to visit him.
At that very moment the fox came in and heard these last words of the wolf.
The lion roaring out in a rage against him, the fox sought an opportunity to defend himself and said,
-"And who of all those who have come to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt from the physicians the means of healing you?'
The lion commanded him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied,
-"You must flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you."
The wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the fox, turning to him, said with a smile,
-"You should have moved your master not to ill, but to good, will."
Never make traps against an innocent because you will be the first to be caught.
Aeosp
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Moon when Wolves run together
Long ago, an old wolf came to that time when his life on earth could last no longer. "My people," he said, "You can follow in my footsteps when the time comes for you to join me in the skyland." Then he left the earth, climbing higher and higher, and each place he stepped the sky filled with stars.
Shunk man-i-tu tan-ka we call the wolves, the powerful spirits who look like dogs. When they climb the hills to lift their heads and sing toward that road of stars, tier songs grow stronger as they join tier voices.
by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London
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The story of Eclipse the wolf
A female wolf (Eclipse) stared intensely at the male leader of the Raven claw pack. She snarls the instinct and knowing of her many ancestors over the centuries running through her. The others wolfs shudder as she does the death howl. The male leader (Codan) springs at her but she is too quick and leaps at the same time. Her legs thumping downwards on to his back stunning him. The she grips his through in her powerful jaw shaking her head violently side to side till his body hangs limp. She drops him and legs her tongue snake over the blood covered fangs. The standing on the highest ridge of the cliff she howls that she is no leader. She smiles to her self she has at last avenged her fathers murder by Codan.
The sun sets and Eclipse takes in long sweeping sniffs of the air she scents a deer. Her instinct kicking in she stalks quietly to where the deer is the when she's with in inches it sees her and sprints of. She chases it full speed and as it stumbles she jumps on it killing just the way she killed Codan. She gorges on the flesh of the deer and indulges in the marrow leaving hollow bones.
A year later she meets Darkstar and she becomes his mate they have pups some with her dark black fur the others with their fathers white fur. The pups grew up and Eclipse grows old with Darkstar until they both died and can now been seen together in the stars.
by Kylie Dowers© 17/02/2004
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Darkstorm's life
DarkStorm is an Alpha wolf that was killed 4 years ago while saving another wolf in his pack, and carried of into the forest by an injured bear that was slowly dying from a wound caused by DarkStorm... What made DarkStorm so unique from the other wolves? What made him special? Well sit back and listen to the story of DarkStorms Life....
DarkStorm's was born under the sign of the shadow... he had abilities that already would of made another Alpha wolf bow to him as a pup! He was able to take down caribou and other large animals as a teen wolf... he could talk with nature itself.. he was known as Natures Child... DarkStorm lost his mother around the time he was a pup, and his father,an alpha wolf at the time, blamed him for his love's death.. so he banned DarkStorm far from his homeland... DarkStorm was raised by many different animals and learned to communicate with the wind and earth... he could easily tell were game was by the feel of the earth... and the smell of the wind... he could tell what type of storm was they would be having by the way the earth shifted.
Back then, DarkStorm was not his name, it normally was Fang, but i'll tell you how he earned the name, DarkStorm. One day, Fang was out running with the other animals to see who was the fastest, DarkStorm easily won but what scared the animals was that when he would run, he left a path of destruction behind him! He was so dark and fast he was like a DARKSTORM!!! So he earned the name DarkStorm.
When he left the new home he lived in for many years. he decided it was time to go back to his home and claim the rightful position as the new Alpha Wolf.. but doing so he would have to challenge his Father! DarkStorm crossed many green fields and rocky mountains till he was home. The wolves saw DarkStorm enter and were ready to attack until the smelled his scent.. it was exactly like his father's, Tundra. DarkStorm walked in between the wolves until he reached his father. He saw his father and DarkStorm totally changed, his eyes were no longer blue, but now forever a green-red which showed the hatred he had for his father and his black coat had a few white stripes showing now, his teeth a little more sharper and his claws a little more jagged sharp as ice cycles in a cave. DarkStorm had changed and knew that the only way for him to become the new Alpha wolf, was to kill his father, even though it was forbidden. DarkStorm go into an attack position and leaped toward Tundra to begin in combat.....
by Kai
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Darkstorm's sacrifice
Darkstorm nimbly leaped onto the boulder, his slitted amber eyes never leaving his opponent's. His misty charcoal coat rippled in the twilight breeze as a low growl escaped his tightened throat. A set of silvery fangs were bared, tinted with a thin shade of dark blood. He suddenly pivoted, and sprang, using every ounce of thick muscle in his legs. He launched himself towards Silverfeet and sunk his teeth into the alpha's tough flank, ripping savagely at the wolf's flesh, and spraying deep red about the granite rock.
Silverfeet flung himself against his challenger, fighting off Darkstorm with both tooth and claw. Darkstorm snarled, and shook away his attacker, then lunging at him. The alpha crumpled, dark blood staining his silvery fur. His breath slowed, and then stopped, and the wolf lay motionless, the constant pounding of his heart now silent. Darkstorm raised his head, staring at the pack as they were at him. They were dumfounded at the sudden and short death of their leader, and now lowered their eyes and heads submissively to their new alpha, now standing proud in the rising fire of the sun. He was their future.
Darkstorm stood tall in the frigid waters of the creek, upon the cliffs from which careened the mighty East Ridge Falls. The wind snapped icily at his skin, and tossed his dark fur like angry fire. He bent his head, and thirstily lapped up the cold water, which slid pleasantly down his dry throat. He then gazed upwards, staring at the cloudless skies. Below the cliffs lay a sea of forest, and beyond that, a golden tundra. It was early spring, and only two winters back he had challenged and caused the death of the alpha of the Whitehawk Creek Pack, the pack that he now held responsibility for. He knew from his previous pack, the West Ridge Pack, that it was against the wolf code to kill in a challenge - or even for a pack-less wolf to challenge an alpha. Yet he had ignored this - he had hated and dismissed all law of the wolf then, as it was what had affected his position as a beta in West Ridge, and placed him without family or pack.
Russet came bounding towards him, his cinnamon coat gleaming and glossy in the sunlight. Darkstorm could tell straight away from the excited wags of the wolf's tail and the spark in his pale brown eyes that they were here - pups! The two wolves streamed down the cliffside, eagerly dodging the trees and following the scent path to their pack den. The alpha barked happily, and his pack welcomed him into the den, followed by Russet. He saw Raven, his mate, laying on her side, and her four pups wriggling and fighting beside her. Their tiny eyes were sealed shut, and their teeth were tiny but sharp. They were all black, like he and raven, but two had splotches of white on their faces and stomachs. One of the white-masked pups had a white tip on it's tail, which was thumping the ground enthusiastically. Raven glanced at Darkstorm with tired eyes, and then her heavy eyelids shut from exhaustion. He nudged her with his nose, and left the den.
Skysong stood in the shallow depths of Whitehawk Creek, feeling the wind blow through her fur and giving her a carefree, spirited attitude. She raced along the creek, her paws sending cold water splashing up her dark coat. Her pale green eyes scanned the jagged horizon, watching the sun rise, showering sparks of gold upon the tundra.
Skysong walked ashore, shaking the water off her night-black fur. She paused for a moment, sensing a sort of danger unknown to her. She sniffed the air, and suddenly cried out at an agonizing pain in her back muscles. Skysong tried to free herself from the bear's weight, then snarling and clawing at it's face and eyes, but the bear remained unharmed. The female wolf knew she was as good as dead. She tried to helplessly shake it off, but it's teeth were firmly sunk into her back. The wolf cried out for help from Blackfire, her brother, as the great bear prepared for it's fatal bit to her jugular vein, but he only yelped at her sorrowfully, then turning and running to the forest in the opposite direction. Suddenly she heard the bear roar with pain and rage, and it let go of Starsong, turning to fight Darkstorm, who had then leaped upon the bear's back and sunk his razor-sharp teeth into the bear's massive neck muscle. Though the attack wasn't enough to cause the bear serious harm, it distracted it long enough so that Skysong could herself to a hiding place. She watched, suffering from untold pain and unable to help, as the bear lifted her sire with it's enormous forepaws and delivered the fatal bite to Darkstorm. The alpha convulsed in the bear's tight grip, and then went limp as the bear dragged the wolf away. Skysong felt her strength ebbing away from her as her dripping blood formed a dark crimson path behind her as she made her way slowly to the den. Darkstorm had died in order to save her life - a sacrifice she wouldn't soon forget.
Once there was a gentleman jaguar and a lady skunk. Mrs. Skunk had a son, who was baptized by Mr. Jaguar, so Mrs. Skunk became his comadre. And as Mr. Jaguar had baptized the little skunk, he was Mrs. Skunk's compadre.
Mr. Jaguar decided to go looking for food and came to Mrs. Skunk's house. "Well, compadre, what are you looking for? What have you come here for?" the skunk asked the jaguar.
"Comadre, what I have come to do is to look for some food," said Mr. Jaguar. "Oh," said Mrs. Skunk.
"I want my godson to come with me so that he can learn to hunt," said Mr. Jaguar. "I don't think your godson ought to go; he's still very small and something could happen to him. He better not go, compadre," said Mrs. Skunk. But the little skunk protested: "No, mother, I had better go. What my godfather says is true. I need to get some practice, if I'm going to learn to hunt," said the little skunk.
"But if you go, you'll be so far away," said Mrs. Skunk. "I'm going, I'm going. Come on, let's go." So they set off on a long walk. "We're going to where there's a river. That's where we're going," Mr. Jaguar explained to the little skunk, his godson.
"When are we going to get there?" asked the little skunk. "We're getting close. Follow me so you won't get lost," said Mr. Jaguar. "All right," answered the little skunk. They finally came to the river. "This is where we're going to eat," said Mr. Jaguar to the little skunk. "All right," said the little skunk.
"Come on over here. I'm going to sharpen my knife," said Mr. Jaguar. "All right," said the little skunk, looking at his godfather. Mr. Jaguar sharpened his claws, which he called his "knife."
"I sharpened my knife. Now you're going to be on guard, because I am going to sleep. When you see them come, wake me up," said Mr. Jaguar.
"All right," said the little skunk, "all right, godfather." Then Mr. Jaguar told him: "Don't shout. Just scratch my belly when they come. Scratch my belly, so I won't alarm them. But don't wake me up if just any little old animals without antlers come along, only when the one with big antlers gets here. That's when you'll wake me up."
"All right," said the little skunk. Then the one with the big antlers came, and the skunk awakened Mr. Jaguar. He scratched his belly, and pointed out the deer to Mr. Jaguar, who attacked the animal with big antlers. He went after him and seized him.
"All right, my godson, let's eat. We're going to eat meat," said the jaguar. "All right," said the little skunk. And so they ate and ate. "Now we're going to take whatever leftovers there are to your mother," said the jaguar. "Since we are full, we can take something to your mother. Your mother will have meat to eat, just as we did. We will take some to your mother," said the jaguar. When they came back to the mother's house, he told the lady:
"Look at the food here. Look, we've brought you some food, the food that we hunted. Eat your fill of the meat, comadre," the jaguar said to Mrs. Skunk.
"All right," said the skunk, and ate the meat. "I'm full," she said. "It's good that you're satisfied. I've seen that you are, so I'll be leaving now," said Mr. Jaguar to Mrs. Skunk. And so he left. After the jaguar left, the little skunk stayed with his mother. When they ran out of meat, Mrs. Skunk said to her son: Dear, our meat is all gone." "Yes, the meat is all gone. I better go and get us some more food," said the little skunk. "How can you, son? Do you think you're big enough? You're very small. Don't you think you'll be killed?" asked Mrs. Skunk.
"No, mother, I already know how to hunt, my godfather taught me how," replied the little skunk. "I'm leaving now."
He left, and Mrs. Skunk was very worried. Her son came once more to the river, the place to which he had come with his godfather to get the meat.
"This is how my godfather did it. Why shouldn't I be able to do the same thing?" said the little skunk. "This is how you sharpen a knife," said the little skunk. He sharpened his "knife." "This is the way my godfather did it. I'm not going to hunt the little animals, I'm just going to hunt the one with the great big antlers. I'm going to hunt one for myself just like the one I ate with my godfather. I have my knife here and I'm going to sleep for a little while." The little skunk lay down to sleep, but then he awakened. He was waiting for the one with the big antlers, and when he came, he attacked him, thinking he was as strong as his godfather. But he just hung from the neck of the one with big antlers. His claws had dug into his skin. He was hanging from his neck and was carried far away and fell on his back. He was left with his mouth wide open.
Since he had not come home to his mother, she wondered: "What could have happened to my son? Why hasn't he come back yet? Something must have happened to him. I better go and look for him." And so Mrs. Skunk went as far as the bank of the river. She was looking everywhere for her son, but couldn't find him. She began to cry when she found the tracks where the one with the big antlers had come by running. "They must have come by here," said Mrs. Skunk, and began to follow the tracks. She came to the place where her son had been left lying on his back. When the mother caught sight of him, she noticed that his teeth were showing and shouted at him:
"Son, what are you laughing at? All your teeth are showing," she said to him before she had gotten very close. When she did get close she told him:
"Give me your hand. I've come to get you, but you're just laughing in my face." She put her hand on him, thinking that he was still alive, but when she noticed that he was already dead, she began to cry.
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THE JAGUAR AND THE DEER
A deer went to look for a place to build himself a house. There was also a jaguar who was out looking for a place to set up a house. He came to the same place the deer had chosen, and thought he would build there also.
The next day the deer came and thoroughly cleared the ground with his antlers. The tiger came later and said:
"It seems somebody is helping me." Then he stuck some big poles in the ground and set up the framework.
The next day the deer came back and when he saw this, he said: "It seems somebody is helping me."
Then he covered the house with branches and made two rooms, one for him and the other one for whomever was helping him.
The next day the jaguar saw that the house was finished. He went in one room and fell asleep. The deer came later and went to sleep in the other room.
One day the two came home at the same time. When they saw each other, the jaguar asked the deer: "Was it you who was helping me?
The deer answered: "Yes, it was me."
Then the jaguar said: "Let's live together."
"Yes, let's live together in the same house," said the deer. They went to sleep and the following morning the jaguar said:
"I'm going hunting, so sweep the floor, prepare wood and water, because I'll be hungry when I come back."
The jaguar went to the woods to hunt and got a very large deer. He brought it home and said to his companion: "Let's eat what I have caught."
But the deer didn't want to eat; he was very much afraid. He couldn't sleep all night long on account of fear. Early the next morning he went to the woods and met a very large jaguar. Later he met a large bull and said to him:
"I met a jaguar who was bad-mouthing you."
The bull went looking for the jaguar and found him resting. The bull came up to him slowly, leaped on top of him and gored him. Then the deer went off dragging the dead jaguar. When he got home, he said to his companion:
"Let's eat what I have caught."
The jaguar approached him, but he didn't want to eat; he was very frightened. That night he couldn't sleep thinking about the deer killing jaguars; and the deer couldn't sleep thinking about the jaguar killing deer. Both were very frightened.
At midnight as the deer moved his head, his antlers struck the wooden walls of the house. The jaguar and the deer were frightened by the noise, and both of them ran out of the house without stopping. And so the deer and the jaguar each went his separate way.
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Moon when Wolves run together
Long ago, an old wolf came to that time when
his life on earth could last no longer.
"My people," he said,
"You can follow in my footsteps when the time comes
for you to join me in the skyland."
Then he left the earth, climbing higher and higher,
and each place he stepped the sky filled with stars.
Shunk man-i-tu tan-ka we call the wolves,
the powerful spirits who look like dogs.
When they climb the hills to lift their heads and sing
toward that road of stars, thier songs grow stronger as they join thier voices.
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Romulus and Remus
The story of the twins, sons of the god of War, Mars. In the legend Romulus and Remus are orphaned when their mother, Silvia is imprisoned and the infants are cast into the Tiber River. They are set ashore under a fig tree and found by a she wolf and a woodpecker, animals that are sacred to Mars. The twins are fed and nursed by the animals, until Faustulus, the king's herdsman finds them and raises them with his wife. They left home to found their new kingdom on the shores of that same river where they had many years before begun their legendary lives.
As children will often do, Romulus and Remus could agree upon neither the location of the new city nor a name for it. It was during this strife that Romulus killed his twin, and thereupon built the new settlement.
Lacking for inhabitants, the new king called upon outcasts from outlying communities to come to his new homeland and to settle upon the Capitoline Hill where Romulus built a sanctuary for misfits of other communities.
But, alas, Romulus soon discovered that his city was lacking for women, and he announced that games were to be celebrated in honor of the god, Consus, and he thereby invited the Latins and the Sabines to his celebration. It was during this event that the Romans lashed out upon the virgins of the community and carried them away.
Romulus' reign was tainted with this story of the rape of the Sabine women, whose tribe, under the leadership of Titus Tatius, allegedly infiltrated the new Latin lands and battled with the inhabitants of Latium, thus forming a union of the two tribes early in the history of ancient Rome.
During the ensuing war, the Sabine women prayed for peace, and they begged that the two tribes unite and form one people, one nation. Unfortunately, the peace was short-lived, and Titus Tatius, who was at this time co-reigning with Romulus, was killed in a confrontation. Thus, Romulus continued his reign alone not only over the Latins but also over the Sabines.
His 37-year reign as the first king of Rome ended when his father, Mars, carried him away to heaven in a chariot of fire. Henceforth, Romulus demanded to be known as " Quirinus," the guardian god to the Romans.
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Legend of the Phantom Wolf
It is said that a young princess named Youkioko once lived in a castle within the woods of Japan. She was very beautiful and attracted many suitors but she wanted none of them. Youkioko made friends with animals easily. One of her best animal friends was a young female wolf affectionately named Starbright. She and Starbright shared many great adventures together. No one thought anything could separate the two and they knew in their hearts if one died the other would follow.
There were rumors of a hunter dressed in black and his faithful and intimidating black wolf. It was said that the wolf was of the shadow realm but very few people believed this rumor. One day the princess wandered into the forest and met there two. The princess feared for her life.
"What do you want with me?" she asked.
"We don't want you, but we can use you as bait for your wolf friend." said the hunter.
"What do you want with Starbright?" asked Youkioko.
"We have heard legends of the beauty of your shewolf and her pelt would sell for quite a lot." said the hunter.
His wolf growled at the princess ferociously. Before any harm could befall the princess Starbright appeared in front of her. The black wolf immediately backed off of princess Youkioko.
"Starbright!" cried the princess.
Starbright attack the black wolf. Before see could kill the black wolf the princess was fatally wounded by the hunter. Starbright fought as valiantly as she could but in the end she to was fatally wounded. With the last of her strength Starbright killed the hunter and his wolf and made it to princess Youkioko. They died in each others arms.
It is said to this day that if a young woman wanders into those woods that the scene repeats its self. Except the young woman is the one that Starbright is protecting and this time Starbright chases them off and leads the woman to safety.
Some say that history is repeating its self because of Starbright's grief over not being able to rescue the princess.
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Aeosp's Fables: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
One day a wolf found a sheep's skin. He wrapped himself in it and sneaked into a sheep pen. He ate a lamb. He was sneaking up on a second lamb when the shepherd caught him.
"Don't throw me out," said the wolf.
"I'm one of your sheep."
"You're only pretending to be a sheep," said the shepherd.
"I'm no fool. I know you're really a wolf."
"How do you know?" asked the wolf.
"I look like a sheep."
"You say you are a sheep," said the shepherd,
"but you act like a wolf."
The shepherd pulled a limb from a tree and beat the wolf with it. The wolf
leaped the fence and climbed a nearby hill.
He never went back to the sheep pen.
Aesop's Fables
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Aeosp's Fables: The wolf and his shadow
Roaming by the mountainside at sundown, a wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself,
-"Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the lion? Ought I not to be acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?"
While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a lion fell upon him and killed him. He exclaimed with a too late repentance,
-"Wretched me! this overestimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."
by Aeosp
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The lion, the wolf, and the fox
A lion, growing old, lay sick in his cave. All the beasts came to visit their king, except the fox.
The wolf therefore, thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the fox to the lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over them all and of not coming to visit him.
At that very moment the fox came in and heard these last words of the wolf.
The lion roaring out in a rage against him, the fox sought an opportunity to defend himself and said,
-"And who of all those who have come to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt from the physicians the means of healing you?'
The lion commanded him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied,
-"You must flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you."
The wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the fox, turning to him, said with a smile,
-"You should have moved your master not to ill, but to good, will."
Never make traps against an innocent because you will be the first to be caught.
Aeosp
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Moon when Wolves run together
Long ago, an old wolf came to that time when his life on earth could last no longer. "My people," he said, "You can follow in my footsteps when the time comes for you to join me in the skyland." Then he left the earth, climbing higher and higher, and each place he stepped the sky filled with stars.
Shunk man-i-tu tan-ka we call the wolves, the powerful spirits who look like dogs. When they climb the hills to lift their heads and sing toward that road of stars, tier songs grow stronger as they join tier voices.
by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London
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The story of Eclipse the wolf
A female wolf (Eclipse) stared intensely at the male leader of the Raven claw pack. She snarls the instinct and knowing of her many ancestors over the centuries running through her. The others wolfs shudder as she does the death howl. The male leader (Codan) springs at her but she is too quick and leaps at the same time. Her legs thumping downwards on to his back stunning him. The she grips his through in her powerful jaw shaking her head violently side to side till his body hangs limp. She drops him and legs her tongue snake over the blood covered fangs. The standing on the highest ridge of the cliff she howls that she is no leader. She smiles to her self she has at last avenged her fathers murder by Codan.
The sun sets and Eclipse takes in long sweeping sniffs of the air she scents a deer. Her instinct kicking in she stalks quietly to where the deer is the when she's with in inches it sees her and sprints of. She chases it full speed and as it stumbles she jumps on it killing just the way she killed Codan. She gorges on the flesh of the deer and indulges in the marrow leaving hollow bones.
A year later she meets Darkstar and she becomes his mate they have pups some with her dark black fur the others with their fathers white fur. The pups grew up and Eclipse grows old with Darkstar until they both died and can now been seen together in the stars.
by Kylie Dowers© 17/02/2004
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Darkstorm's life
DarkStorm is an Alpha wolf that was killed 4 years ago while saving another wolf in his pack, and carried of into the forest by an injured bear that was slowly dying from a wound caused by DarkStorm... What made DarkStorm so unique from the other wolves? What made him special? Well sit back and listen to the story of DarkStorms Life....
DarkStorm's was born under the sign of the shadow... he had abilities that already would of made another Alpha wolf bow to him as a pup! He was able to take down caribou and other large animals as a teen wolf... he could talk with nature itself.. he was known as Natures Child... DarkStorm lost his mother around the time he was a pup, and his father,an alpha wolf at the time, blamed him for his love's death.. so he banned DarkStorm far from his homeland... DarkStorm was raised by many different animals and learned to communicate with the wind and earth... he could easily tell were game was by the feel of the earth... and the smell of the wind... he could tell what type of storm was they would be having by the way the earth shifted.
Back then, DarkStorm was not his name, it normally was Fang, but i'll tell you how he earned the name, DarkStorm. One day, Fang was out running with the other animals to see who was the fastest, DarkStorm easily won but what scared the animals was that when he would run, he left a path of destruction behind him! He was so dark and fast he was like a DARKSTORM!!! So he earned the name DarkStorm.
When he left the new home he lived in for many years. he decided it was time to go back to his home and claim the rightful position as the new Alpha Wolf.. but doing so he would have to challenge his Father! DarkStorm crossed many green fields and rocky mountains till he was home. The wolves saw DarkStorm enter and were ready to attack until the smelled his scent.. it was exactly like his father's, Tundra. DarkStorm walked in between the wolves until he reached his father. He saw his father and DarkStorm totally changed, his eyes were no longer blue, but now forever a green-red which showed the hatred he had for his father and his black coat had a few white stripes showing now, his teeth a little more sharper and his claws a little more jagged sharp as ice cycles in a cave. DarkStorm had changed and knew that the only way for him to become the new Alpha wolf, was to kill his father, even though it was forbidden. DarkStorm go into an attack position and leaped toward Tundra to begin in combat.....
by Kai
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Darkstorm's sacrifice
Darkstorm nimbly leaped onto the boulder, his slitted amber eyes never leaving his opponent's. His misty charcoal coat rippled in the twilight breeze as a low growl escaped his tightened throat. A set of silvery fangs were bared, tinted with a thin shade of dark blood. He suddenly pivoted, and sprang, using every ounce of thick muscle in his legs. He launched himself towards Silverfeet and sunk his teeth into the alpha's tough flank, ripping savagely at the wolf's flesh, and spraying deep red about the granite rock.
Silverfeet flung himself against his challenger, fighting off Darkstorm with both tooth and claw. Darkstorm snarled, and shook away his attacker, then lunging at him. The alpha crumpled, dark blood staining his silvery fur. His breath slowed, and then stopped, and the wolf lay motionless, the constant pounding of his heart now silent. Darkstorm raised his head, staring at the pack as they were at him. They were dumfounded at the sudden and short death of their leader, and now lowered their eyes and heads submissively to their new alpha, now standing proud in the rising fire of the sun. He was their future.
Darkstorm stood tall in the frigid waters of the creek, upon the cliffs from which careened the mighty East Ridge Falls. The wind snapped icily at his skin, and tossed his dark fur like angry fire. He bent his head, and thirstily lapped up the cold water, which slid pleasantly down his dry throat. He then gazed upwards, staring at the cloudless skies. Below the cliffs lay a sea of forest, and beyond that, a golden tundra. It was early spring, and only two winters back he had challenged and caused the death of the alpha of the Whitehawk Creek Pack, the pack that he now held responsibility for. He knew from his previous pack, the West Ridge Pack, that it was against the wolf code to kill in a challenge - or even for a pack-less wolf to challenge an alpha. Yet he had ignored this - he had hated and dismissed all law of the wolf then, as it was what had affected his position as a beta in West Ridge, and placed him without family or pack.
Russet came bounding towards him, his cinnamon coat gleaming and glossy in the sunlight. Darkstorm could tell straight away from the excited wags of the wolf's tail and the spark in his pale brown eyes that they were here - pups! The two wolves streamed down the cliffside, eagerly dodging the trees and following the scent path to their pack den. The alpha barked happily, and his pack welcomed him into the den, followed by Russet. He saw Raven, his mate, laying on her side, and her four pups wriggling and fighting beside her. Their tiny eyes were sealed shut, and their teeth were tiny but sharp. They were all black, like he and raven, but two had splotches of white on their faces and stomachs. One of the white-masked pups had a white tip on it's tail, which was thumping the ground enthusiastically. Raven glanced at Darkstorm with tired eyes, and then her heavy eyelids shut from exhaustion. He nudged her with his nose, and left the den.
Skysong stood in the shallow depths of Whitehawk Creek, feeling the wind blow through her fur and giving her a carefree, spirited attitude. She raced along the creek, her paws sending cold water splashing up her dark coat. Her pale green eyes scanned the jagged horizon, watching the sun rise, showering sparks of gold upon the tundra.
Skysong walked ashore, shaking the water off her night-black fur. She paused for a moment, sensing a sort of danger unknown to her. She sniffed the air, and suddenly cried out at an agonizing pain in her back muscles. Skysong tried to free herself from the bear's weight, then snarling and clawing at it's face and eyes, but the bear remained unharmed. The female wolf knew she was as good as dead. She tried to helplessly shake it off, but it's teeth were firmly sunk into her back. The wolf cried out for help from Blackfire, her brother, as the great bear prepared for it's fatal bit to her jugular vein, but he only yelped at her sorrowfully, then turning and running to the forest in the opposite direction. Suddenly she heard the bear roar with pain and rage, and it let go of Starsong, turning to fight Darkstorm, who had then leaped upon the bear's back and sunk his razor-sharp teeth into the bear's massive neck muscle. Though the attack wasn't enough to cause the bear serious harm, it distracted it long enough so that Skysong could herself to a hiding place. She watched, suffering from untold pain and unable to help, as the bear lifted her sire with it's enormous forepaws and delivered the fatal bite to Darkstorm. The alpha convulsed in the bear's tight grip, and then went limp as the bear dragged the wolf away. Skysong felt her strength ebbing away from her as her dripping blood formed a dark crimson path behind her as she made her way slowly to the den. Darkstorm had died in order to save her life - a sacrifice she wouldn't soon forget.
