Can someone send me the story of King Lyakon and how he was turned into a wolf? Or someother mythology stories that involve people being turned into wolves? Or being born a wolf anything like that that has to do with mythology and wolves.
2007-10-14 10:54:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Lycaon, a king of Arcadia, so the story goes, was informed that the great god Zeus was coming to visit him. He prepared a feast in honor of the god but he ordered that human flesh be prepared. Lycaon's scheme was to test Zeus reasoning that if Zeus was truly a god he would be able to discern what meat was being offered to him to eat.
Lycaon succeeded in deceiving Zeus and in retribution he was cursed by the god into becoming a human wolf (werewolf), feeding on human flesh. In other words, according to this mythology Lycaon was the first... Werewolf.
Today the scientific term for the condition that makes a person believe that he is a wolf is: Lycanthropy, the word derived from King Lycaon's name.
Best.
H
2007-10-14 12:59:34 · answer #1 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wolves have minor roles interior Norse and local American mythology, besides because of the fact the story of Romulus and Remus, yet (different than for Fenrir) no wolf performs a important area in mythological memories.
2016-10-09 05:40:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tale of Lycaon spans pages 9 to 11 ib Ovids "Metamorphoses." It is too long to paste here. I will paste an excerpt.
10 BOOK ONE lines 221-253
Began to worship, and Lycaon mocked them, Laughed at their prayers, and said: 'Watch me find out Whether this fellow is a god or mortal, I can tell quickly, and no doubt about it.' He planned, that night, to kill me while I slumbered; That was his way to test the truth. Moreover, And not content with that, he took a hostage, One sent by the Molossians, cut his throat, Boiled pieces of his flesh, still warm with life, Broiled others, and set them before me on the table. That was enough. I struck, and the bolt of lightning Blasted the household of that guilty monarch. He fled in terror, reached the silent fields, And howled, and tried to speak. No use at all! Foam dripped from his mouth; bloodthirsty still, he turned Against the sheep, delighting still in slaughter, And his arms were legs, and his robes were shaggy hair, Yet he is still Lycaon, the same grayness, The same fierce face, the same red eyes, a picture Of bestial savagery. One house has fallen, But more than one deserves to. Fury reigns Over all the fields of Earth. They are sworn to evil, Believe it. Let them pay for it, and quickly! So stands my purpose."
2007-10-14 11:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only wolf-related story I know is that of Romulus and Remus's being raised by a she-wolf in the forest...
2007-10-14 11:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by the red phoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋