Tag: wolf

Lone Wolf

Photographer Unknown, (Lone Wolf)

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn’t stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one’s place in the world. To say ‘I am here.’ To say ‘I am.”
― O. R. Melling

Julia Rohwedder

Julia Rohwedder, Unknown Title, (The Change)

Julia Rohwedder is a graphic and animation artist.

“The change comes rapidly, quicker than thought. The wolf in man surges from the mind and into the body. The thought to action becomes action; the action becomes the force and cunning of a wild one going into a hunt. The senses heighten and explode.” – Thomas of Maidstone

 

Through Wolf’s Eyes

Seen Through Clear Vision

“Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools – like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.”
― Jane Lindskold, Through Wolf’s Eyes

Mother Horse Eyes: “Shadows Sneaking Between Trees”

Photographer Unknown, (On the Edge of the Forest)

“Sometimes late at night, I heard singing. It came from outside, out there in the far distance, from somewhere in the deep forest beyond the boundaries of my world. Some nights it was one voice, but usually it was many, singing a strange, aching song. It sounded like a haunted crying. When I was little, I had whimpered and cried like this to my mother. But who was crying out there in the night? What kind of dark mother was listening?

When I first heard the singing, I was filled with a blood dread. The hair on my back bristled, and I growled and barked at the darkness. Even after the night finally went silent, I trotted around for hours in vigilant anger. Later, as I heard it more often, I learned to accept it with a sullen unease. Of course, this singing was the sound of wolves howling, but I didn’t know this in the dream. In the dream, I’d never seen a wolf in my life.

One winter, I began to see them prowling in the woods. To me, they were ghost dogs, shadows sneaking between trees, eyes glinting in the twilight. I growled and barked at them, but didn’t pursue. For several months, they never encroached on my world.”

― Mother Horse Eyes, The Interface Series

The Bone Shadows

Illustration from Werewolf: The Forsaken, Second Edition

The Bone Shadows (First Tongue: Hirfathra Hissu)

The Bone Shadow is a hermit and shaman, a hunter of things that cannot be slain with mere fang and claw alone. They trap ghosts and bind spirits, they cast out angels and speak the language of the dead. They have a reputation for strangeness, but it’s a product of their greater understanding of Shadow. Spirits and other ephemeral beings obey bizarre laws and compulsions, and to the Bone Shadows these things are natural, instinctive.

Taboos have power, in the keeping and the breaking, and the Bone Shadows know how to call on that power. While Ithaeur of all tribes can command and use spirits, the Bone Shadows do more than command. They curate, managing the boundary of worlds in the name of Father Wolf, seeking to understand the secrets beyond the visible in the name of their tribal totem. They seek out that which is unknown, study and catalogue and bind it away or cast it out.

Jim Taihuttu’s “Wolf”

Director Jim Taihuttu’s “Wolf”, 2013, starring Marwan Kenzari

WOLF is a crime thriller that offers a look inside the world of a new generation of hard criminals that is increasingly present in the big cities of Europe. In the grey desolation of an anonymous ghetto young kick boxer Majid (Marwan Kenzari) quickly makes a career for himself inside and outside of the ring, thanks to his iron fists. As his star rises, the two worlds of the ring and organized crime collide as he becomes deeper entangled in his own ambition.

Written and directed by Jim Taihuttu, it is good film, though based on a story line that has been done before, with a particularly tense feel to it. The film is a no sympathy criminal character study of a man’s self-destruction. It was filmed in black and white in the Netherlands by the Dutch production company Habbekrats. A good film to seek out, particularly if you enjoyed watching Nicolas Refn’s three “Pusher” films or Audiard’s “Un Prophete”.

More information and trailers are at http://wolfdefilm.nl

Full Moons 2016

The Full Moon: Holiday for a Change

Full moon names date back to Native Americans. Some tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. This is when full moons will occur in 2016, according to NASA:

Date Name U.S. East UTC
Jan. 23 Wolf Moon 8:46 p.m. 01:46 (1/24)
Feb. 22 Snow Moon 1:20 p.m. 18:20
Mar. 23 Worm Moon 8:01 a.m. 12:01
Apr. 22 Pink Moon 1:24 a.m. 05:24
May 21 Flower Moon 5:15 p.m. 21:15
June 20 Strawberry Moon 7:02 a.m. 11:02
July 19 Buck Moon 6:57 p.m. 22:57
Aug. 18 Sturgeon Moon 5:27 a.m. 09:27
Sept. 16 Harvest Moon 3:05 p.m. 19:05
Oct. 16 Hunter’s Moon 12:23 a.m. 04:23
Nov. 14 Beaver Moon 8:52 a.m. 13:52
Dec. 13 Cold Moon 7:05 p.m. 00:05 (12/14)

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn’t stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one’s place in the world. To say ‘I am here.’ To say ‘I am.”
― O.R. Melling