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The Wolf – A Mythological and Comparative Study

By David Lilley

 

Ancient texts document the hatred of Cain for his brother Abel and relate how Cain callously slew his innocent brother. This fratricidal act has been perpetrated by Homo sapiens against Canis lupus over thousands of years.

Human and wolf are psychic siblings: rival apex predators in the late Pleistocene; both intelligent, family orientated and highly socialized creatures. While decadent, rapacious humanity has become an infestation on the surface of planet Earth, the wolf is immaculate: all that we once were – all that we should be – all that we must become!

All that is odious, iniquitous and malicious in the human archetype is repressed into the Shadow of the collective human unconscious and projected upon the despised scapegoat of humanity – the wolf – making it the very embodiment of evil and malevolence. Homeopathic wolf’s milk, Lac lupinum, bears the impress not only of the wolf’s suffering at the hands of humanity, but also the mythical and projected visions of the wolf built into the human unconscious, ensuring a remedy of uncommon scope and power for the healing of the human soul.

 

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CONTENTS

 

About the Author   ix

Preface   xi

 

1 Scapegoat of Humanity   1

2 The Wolf God   15

3 Nine: the Sacred Number   25

4 Gods of the Wolf   30

5 The Binding of Loki   45

6 The Mark of Lucifer   49

7 The Dark Wolf of Egypt   55

8 The Grey Wolf Lac lupinum,Canis lupus   63

9 Red: Colour of the Wolf   71

10 Suppressed Anger (1) Carcinosin, Aurum, Lycopodium   79

11 Suppressed Anger (2) Causticum, Ignatia, Nat-mur, Sepia   97

12 Suppressed Anger (3) Staphysagria, Chamomilla, Colocynthis   105

13 Suppressed Anger (4) Anacardium   113

14 Suppressed Anger (5) Hepar sulph, Lyssin   127

15 Suppressed Anger (6) Quercus, Agaricus, Germanium   139

16 The Wolf: Fire and Water Magnesium, Water, Franang’s Falls   161

17 Hermes: The Trickster God   171

18 Quicksilver (1) Ferrum and Mercury   181

19 Quicksilver (2) Puer aeternus   189

20 Mercurius Archetype   195

21 Hermes and Mercurius   201

22 The Homeric Hymn to Hermes   209

23 The Young Hermes Wolf   221

24 God of Communication (1) Performer, Musician   227

25 God of Communication (2) Grandmaster, Orator, Author, Worker   231

26 The Mercurial Wolf (1) The Womaniser   243

27 The Mercurial Wolf (2) Sex   247

28 The Mercurial Wolf (3) The Cold Fish, The Transgressor, The Entrepreneur   253

29 The Mercurial Wolf (4) The loner, The stranger, The one apart   257

30 The Mercurial Wolf (5) Hurried, Restless, Compulsive,Ritualistic, Megalomania   263

31 The Mercurial Wolf (6) Thoughts, Urges and Impulses   267

32 The Wolf Spider (1) Symbolism, Natural History   271

33 The Wolf Spider (2) Tarantism, Mythology   277

34 The Wolf of the Stage Palladium   283

35 Archetypes fundamental to the Creation and the Psyche   287

36 The Wolf Spider and the Wolf (1) Freedom, Activity, Victim,Attention, Feigning illness, Oversensitivity   291

37 The Wolf Spider and the Wolf (2) Frequency and Vibration   301

38 The Wolf Spider and the Wolf (3) Lycosa tarantula, Sexuality,Hypersexuality   311

39 The Wolf Spider and the Wolf (4) Lac lupinum, Sexuality,Abuse of the Feminine   315

40 The Wolf Spider and the Wolf (5) Immaturity, Feminine andMasculine Principles   327

41 Lycosa tarantula (1) Food and Drink   337

42 Lycosa tarantula (2) The Trickster   339

43 Lycosa tarantula (3) Conclusion   345

 

Index   361

 

ISBN 9781908127297

368 Pages