Wolf

Also known as: Lupus · Family: animals · Role: wolf · First appears: Tale 2 · The Spiders Give Birth to People

In Tale 1, Wolf lost the rain-endurance contest to Lucky-Man, then created prairie land for buffalo to roam on the north side of the Missouri River. The Missouri later began flowing along the boundary between their lands.

In Tale 2, Wolf and his friend visited the old folks, treated Spider-Man and Spider-Man's wife with wild sage, and improved their appearance and smell. Wolf taught Spider-Man how to have children with his wife; their human offspring became the origin of all people.

Relationship record

Life events

• Wolf lost the rain-endurance contest to Lucky-Man.(Tale 1 · The Wolf and Lucky-Man Create Land · 📍 the shore of the lake)
  • With: Lucky-Man
  • “The Wolf finally gave in.”
• Wolf created prairie land for buffalo to roam.(Tale 1 · The Wolf and Lucky-Man Create Land · 📍 the north side of the Missouri River)
  • With: Duck
  • “The Wolf then threw the mud in the north, and said, ‘Form into land, and let it be prairie, and let the buffalo roam over this prairie!’ And it was done.”
• The Missouri began flowing along the boundary between their lands.(Tale 1 · The Wolf and Lucky-Man Create Land · 📍 the Missouri River bed)
  • With: Lucky-Man
  • “The first thing they knew, the stream of the Missouri began to flow along the dividing line of the two countries they had created.”
• Wolf and his friend treated the Spider-Man and his wife, improving their appearance and removing their bad odor.(Tale 2 · The Spiders Give Birth to People)
  • With: Spider-Man Spider-Man's wife Wolf's friend
  • “They dipped the wild sage into the water and rubbed it all over the two Spider people. As he rubbed the wild sage over them they became very different, they looked better, and they did not smell bad.”
• Wolf taught Spider-Man how to have children with his wife, and their human offspring became the origin of all people.(Tale 2 · The Spiders Give Birth to People)
  • With: Spider-Man Spider-Man's wife
  • “Deinde Lupus virum docebat quem ad modum cum uxore concumbere conveniret, quidque facere oporteret ut liberos gignere posset. Nisi Lupus haec fecisset, ut aiunt, nulli de genere humano geniti essent. Namque ille Araneos docuit quem ad modum concumbere oporteret ut liberos gignerent. Qui autem ex eis geniti sunt humani fuerunt, unde homines omnes sunt.”

Tale 2 · The Spiders Give Birth to People

• friends with Wolf's friend “One day the Wolf and his friend went to visit these old folks.”
• pupil: Spider-Man “Deinde Lupus virum docebat quem ad modum cum uxore concumbere conveniret, quidque facere oporteret ut liberos gignere posset.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.