{"id":314,"date":"2015-01-07T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunsgathan.net\/feannog\/2015\/01\/07\/excerpt-from-going-into-wolf-shape\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:19:17","slug":"excerpt-from-going-into-wolf-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunsgathan.net\/feannog\/2015\/01\/07\/excerpt-from-going-into-wolf-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt from “Going into Wolf-Shape”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my last of the excerpts from past<\/b> issues of Air n-Aithesc <\/i><\/a>that I have to share. I have previously posted excerpts from “Muimme naFiann: Foster-mother of heroes”<\/a> and\u00a0 ‘\u201cBy Force in the Battlefield\u201d: Finding the Irish Female Hero’<\/a>. The rest of this one can be found in the first issue, Vol 1, Issue 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"RedThe next issue should be out at Imbolc, in just a few weeks. I will try to post excerpts in a more timely manner at that point. ~;)\u00a0 Or maybe I’ll even blog something else. ~:p<\/p>\n

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Humans have lived with dogs for possibly somewhere between 18,800 and 32,100 years, earlier than previously believed.[i]<\/span><\/span><\/a>Given highly social nature of both humans and canines and our mutual ability to hunt in groups requiring good communication skills, it seems natural that the relationship would have started when we were hunter-gatherers.\u00a0 <\/span>Early Neolithic dog burials in Siberia suggest that during this period dogs held an high status not far below humans, beyond their \u201cutilitarian\u201d usefulness.[ii]<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>How natural the relationship is between humans and canines is something most who live with dogs would readily argue, our ability to relate is a given for us. Science has been proving this point, communication and emotional response are strong and similar.[iii]<\/span><\/span><\/a>It would be more amazing if humans and wolves\u2014for dogs are wolves who choose to adapt to live in human packs\u2014had not bonded.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There is a great deal of lore and history regarding the importance of dogs among the Gaelic and other Indo-European cultures. Recent genetic testing has revealed that the rose-eared sighthound originated among the Celtic people.[iv]<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>This ancient hound was the ancestor of the modern Greyhound, the Scottish Deerhound, as well as the Galgo Espa\u00f1ol, which is probably very similar to the ancient hounds. The warrior and the canine are repeatedly linked in Irish lore. One Irish term for wolf, \u201cmac tire<\/i>\u201d (literally \u201cson of the land\u201d), seems to have first meant a \u201cvagabond warrior\u201d came to primarily mean \u201cwolf.\u201d[v]<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/sup><\/a> Many warriors and kings bore \u201chound\u201d or \u201cwolf\u201d in their names.[vi]<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/sup><\/a> The most recognized is C\u00fa Chulainn, who, as a child, took the very role he became named for, \u201cCulainn\u2019s hound,\u201d after killing the smith\u2019s original guard dog in self-defense.[vii]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a> The F\u00edanna were renowned for their hunting hounds.<\/span>[viii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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[i]<\/span><\/a> Elizabeth Pennisi, \u201cOld Dogs Teach a New Lesson About Canine Origins\u201d Science Magazine <\/i>Vol. 342 no. 6160, November, 15\u00a0 2013 http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/342\/6160\/785.full<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n

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[ii]<\/span><\/a> Robert J. Losey, et al \u201cBurying Dogs in Ancient Cis-Baikal, Siberia: Temporal Trends and Relationships with Human Diet and Subsistence Practices,\u201d PLoS ONE 8(5) 2013\u00a0 http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0063740<\/a>?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[iii]<\/span><\/a> Gregory Berns, How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain<\/i>, New Harvest, 2013<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[iv]<\/span><\/a> Heidi G. Parker, Lisa V. Kim, Nathan B. Sutter et al, Genetic Structure of the Purebred Domestic Dog Science<\/i>, 21 May, 2004: Vol. 304 no. 5674, pg. 1160-1164 https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/genomics\/kruglyak\/publication\/PDF\/2004_Parker_Genetic.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[v]<\/span><\/a> Kim McCone, \u201cVaria II.\u201d \u00c9riu <\/i>36, 1985 pg. pg. 173<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[vi]<\/span><\/a> Joseph Falaky Nagy, The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition,<\/i> Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, pg. 44, although far more is in this pages notes 19-22 found on 243-245; McCone, \u201cAided Cheltchair Maic Uthechair<\/i> pg. 1-30, especially noted on pg. 12-14<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[vii]<\/span><\/a>Cecile O’Rahilly, trans., T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faalnge<\/i>from Book of Leinster<\/i> Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967 English http:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/celt\/published\/T301035\/index.html Irish http:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/celt\/published\/G301035\/index.html<\/a> pg. 23-25, 160-163; O\u2019Rahilly, trans. T\u00e1in B\u00f3 C\u00faalnge, Recession 1<\/i> Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976 <\/i>English http:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/celt\/published\/T301012\/index.html Irish http:\/\/www.ucc.ie\/celt\/published\/G301012\/index.html<\/a> pg. \u00a017-19,140-142<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[viii]<\/span><\/a> J. R. Reinhard and V. E. Hull, \u201cBran and Sceolang,\u201d Speculum <\/i>11,<\/i> 1936, pg. 42-58, Nagy, The Wisdom of the Outlaw, <\/i>pg. 44, 95-97<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0 <\/span>Copyright \u00a9 2014 Saigh Kym Lambert <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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