The wolf is held in a sacred place within many first nation beliefs. What does the wolf symbolize? Wolves are powerful communicators, social, and intelligent. The messages transmitted by the howling wolf is haunting and lingering.
Among the tribes of the Interior, it was represented by the various animals which were supposed to preside over the “six celestial spaces,” such as the bear, wolf, mountain lion, panther, eagle and mole, though among some of the tribes it was the mysterious spider women.
Among the mountain tribes, a being having the human form and human attributes, but adorned with ornaments borrowed from the mountains, was the mythologic totem, as well as creator. The tribes of the northwest coast took their mythologic totems from the animals of the sea or the forest near which they dwelt, such as the whale, the wolf and the raven, though they mingled these with their human ancestry.
The Zunis divided the earth into six regions, the north, west, south, east, the upper region and the lower regions and ascribed a divinity to each one of these regions. These divinities were all animals, but they were animals of different kinds, the wolf being the God of the east, the bear the God of the west, the badger the God of the south, the mountain lion the God of the north, the eagle the God of the upper regions, and the mole the God of the lower regions.
Wolves, like other totems, were often honored in dance. In the wolf dance, the society of those who had supernatural communication with wolves were the dancers. They wore wolf skins, and paint the tips of their noses and their bodies, in imitation of the blue wolves, and dance in imitation of the actions of the wolves.
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