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Rome. Sparta. Norway. England. Ireland. Every one of them has a wolf standing at its origin point, and it is not a coincidence.
This video traces one buried institution across nine places and three thousand years: the koryos, the Indo-European warrior band. Young men were sent out of their communities at the threshold of adulthood, lived as wolves on the margins, raided to survive, and came back transformed. Some came back as kings. Others never came back, and founded something new where they stopped.
ANCIENT GREECE
On Mount Lykaion in Arcadia, a clan sacrificed to Zeus Lykaios, and Plato records that whoever ate the human portion of the offering became a wolf for nine years. Pausanias names a participant: Damarchus of Parrhasia, an Olympic boxing champion. Burkert deduced from that detail that the men involved were ephebes, youths under initiation. Greek kingship is saturated with the same animal: Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver, another Lycurgus king of Tegea, another king of the Edoni in Thrace, Lycomedes, Autolycus, Lycaon. At Argos a succession dispute was settled by a wolf killing the lead bull of the herd, after which Danaus took the throne.
ANCIENT ROME
Rome ran the rite as a state festival for a thousand years. The Lupercalia was staffed by the Luperci, brothers of the wolf, and Plutarch does not even treat it as Roman, calling it by its Greek name, the Lykaia. In 44 BC Caesar created a third college of wolf-priests in his own honour, the Luperci Iulii, and Mark Antony led them. Mid-festival, half naked in a goatskin, Antony offered Caesar a crown. When the Church moved to abolish the festival around AD 494, the Senate protested that it was essential to the safety of Rome. The city's founding myth is the same story in miniature: twins exposed to die, suckled by a she-wolf beneath the Palatine.
THE SABINES AND THE SAMNITES
On Mount Soracte a second wolf priesthood walked barefoot over burning coals. They were the Hirpi Sorani, the wolves of Soranus, exempted by the Senate from military service. Their founding legend has an oracle telling the people to survive by living as wolves do, by robbery. Nearby, the Italic ver sacrum sent whole generations of consecrated youths out of the homeland behind a guiding animal. One branch followed a wolf and became the Hirpini. The region is still called Irpinia.
DACIA
Strabo records that the Dacians were originally called daoi, connected to a Phrygian word for wolf, and on Trajan's Column they advance under the draco, a bronze wolf head with open jaws that screamed in the wind.
GERMANIC WORLD
The Saga of the Volsungs describes Sigmund and Sinfjotli living as outlaws in the forest, putting on wolf pelts they cannot remove, learning to howl, and burning the skins on the tenth day. That is not a curse. It is a curriculum. The Second Lay of Helgi states the clan name outright: King Sigmund and his kin were called Volsungs and Ylfingar, wolflings. The cycle then runs into the historical Burgundians, whose king Gundaharius fell on the Rhine in 436 and whose survivors gave their name to Burgundy.
ENGLAND
England's first great dynasty called itself the Wuffingas, kin of the wolf, cognate with the Wulfings of Beowulf and Widsith. Which makes the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the richest royal grave ever found in Britain, the tomb of the Wolf Kin.
NORWAY
The oldest mention of berserks anywhere is a ninth-century praise poem for Harald Fairhair, and it calls them ulfhednar, wolf-coats: bloody shields, red spears, a closed formation the king trusts to break the enemy line. The battle is Hafrsfjord, after which Norway becomes one kingdom.
IRELAND
The Coir Anmann names Laignech Faelad, brother of a king of Ossory, as the first of them to go into a wolf shape. Irish warriors really did go wolfing, and were called luchthonn, wolf-skins. The dynasty became the Mac Giolla Phadraig, in English Fitzpatrick.
There is more that did not fit. The Serbs held the wolf as tribal ancestor and called their supreme god the Wolf Shepherd. Vseslav of Polotsk, a prince of the Rus, was said to rule by day and run as a wolf by night.
00:00- Intro
00:52- Greece
02:40- Rome
05:10- Sabine
07:15- Dacia
07:50- Germania
09:16- England
10:00- Norway
10:35- Ireland
11:17- Rus
11:42- Serbia
12:15- Modern Day
#NorseMythology #VikingHistory #Werewolf #GreekMythology #AncientRome #Berserker #NorseGods #IrishMythology #AncientHistory #Koryos
WOLF CULTS BUILT EUROPE
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Rome. Sparta. Norway. England. Ireland. Every one of them has a wolf standing at its origin point, and it is not a coincidence.
This video traces one buried institution across nine places and three thousand years: the koryos, the Indo-European warrior band. Young men were sent out of their communities at the threshold of adulthood, lived as wolves on the margins, raided to survive, and came back transformed. Some came back as kings. Others never came back, and founded something new where they stopped.
ANCIENT GREECE
On Mount Lykaion in Arcadia, a clan sacrificed to Zeus Lykaios, and Plato records that whoever ate the human portion of the offering became a wolf for nine years. Pausanias names a participant: Damarchus of Parrhasia, an Olympic boxing champion. Burkert deduced from that detail that the men involved were ephebes, youths under initiation. Greek kingship is saturated with the same animal: Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver, another Lycurgus king of Tegea, another king of the Edoni in Thrace, Lycomedes, Autolycus, Lycaon. At Argos a succession dispute was settled by a wolf killing the lead bull of the herd, after which Danaus took the throne.
ANCIENT ROME
Rome ran the rite as a state festival for a thousand years. The Lupercalia was staffed by the Luperci, brothers of the wolf, and Plutarch does not even treat it as Roman, calling it by its Greek name, the Lykaia. In 44 BC Caesar created a third college of wolf-priests in his own honour, the Luperci Iulii, and Mark Antony led them. Mid-festival, half naked in a goatskin, Antony offered Caesar a crown. When the Church moved to abolish the festival around AD 494, the Senate protested that it was essential to the safety of Rome. The city's founding myth is the same story in miniature: twins exposed to die, suckled by a she-wolf beneath the Palatine.
THE SABINES AND THE SAMNITES
On Mount Soracte a second wolf priesthood walked barefoot over burning coals. They were the Hirpi Sorani, the wolves of Soranus, exempted by the Senate from military service. Their founding legend has an oracle telling the people to survive by living as wolves do, by robbery. Nearby, the Italic ver sacrum sent whole generations of consecrated youths out of the homeland behind a guiding animal. One branch followed a wolf and became the Hirpini. The region is still called Irpinia.
DACIA
Strabo records that the Dacians were originally called daoi, connected to a Phrygian word for wolf, and on Trajan's Column they advance under the draco, a bronze wolf head with open jaws that screamed in the wind.
GERMANIC WORLD
The Saga of the Volsungs describes Sigmund and Sinfjotli living as outlaws in the forest, putting on wolf pelts they cannot remove, learning to howl, and burning the skins on the tenth day. That is not a curse. It is a curriculum. The Second Lay of Helgi states the clan name outright: King Sigmund and his kin were called Volsungs and Ylfingar, wolflings. The cycle then runs into the historical Burgundians, whose king Gundaharius fell on the Rhine in 436 and whose survivors gave their name to Burgundy.
ENGLAND
England's first great dynasty called itself the Wuffingas, kin of the wolf, cognate with the Wulfings of Beowulf and Widsith. Which makes the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the richest royal grave ever found in Britain, the tomb of the Wolf Kin.
NORWAY
The oldest mention of berserks anywhere is a ninth-century praise poem for Harald Fairhair, and it calls them ulfhednar, wolf-coats: bloody shields, red spears, a closed formation the king trusts to break the enemy line. The battle is Hafrsfjord, after which Norway becomes one kingdom.
IRELAND
The Coir Anmann names Laignech Faelad, brother of a king of Ossory, as the first of them to go into a wolf shape. Irish warriors really did go wolfing, and were called luchthonn, wolf-skins. The dynasty became the Mac Giolla Phadraig, in English Fitzpatrick.
There is more that did not fit. The Serbs held the wolf as tribal ancestor and called their supreme god the Wolf Shepherd. Vseslav of Polotsk, a prince of the Rus, was said to rule by day and run as a wolf by night.
00:00- Intro
00:52- Greece
02:40- Rome
05:10- Sabine
07:15- Dacia
07:50- Germania
09:16- England
10:00- Norway
10:35- Ireland
11:17- Rus
11:42- Serbia
12:15- Modern Day
#NorseMythology #VikingHistory #Werewolf #GreekMythology #AncientRome #Berserker #NorseGods #IrishMythology #AncientHistory #Koryos
