I know it's a joke but she-wolf iconography was very common in rome:
She was one of the great symbols of rome, but wolves as a whole were seen as complex entities embodying both good and bad, and adopting 'moral ambiguity' as a symbol of your nation is honest not the best brand image. Plus, since rome's whole thing was stealing accomplishments wholesale from the greeks and pretending they'd been rome's all along (early reddit!), they really needed to adopt a symbol of Zeus for... tedious theo-political reasons, which is why we wound up with the Aquilla.
The other founding myth of Rome is that time they raped and kidnapped all the women from their neighboring cities because they were literally all criminal incels.
Moral ambiguity as evaluated by Roman Culture, not by modern standards. They minted coins depicting the rape of sabine, it wasn't viewed as a shameful or evil act.
I know animism in theory, but I'm not aware it includes wolf fucking by design? Just because a rock or a tree has a soul/spirit doesnt mean I can fuck it. Honestly it is the opposite in my eyes: you first need to get consent, if you believe it to be animated by a spirit.
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 34d
I know it's a joke but she-wolf iconography was very common in rome:
She was one of the great symbols of rome, but wolves as a whole were seen as complex entities embodying both good and bad, and adopting 'moral ambiguity' as a symbol of your nation is
honestnot the best brand image. Plus, since rome's whole thing was stealing accomplishments wholesale from the greeks and pretending they'd been rome's all along (early reddit!), they really needed to adopt a symbol of Zeus for... tedious theo-political reasons, which is why we wound up with the Aquilla.DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 34d
The other founding myth of Rome is that time they raped and kidnapped all the women from their neighboring cities because they were literally all criminal incels.
I think Rome was fine with "moral ambiguity"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_women
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Moral ambiguity as evaluated by Roman Culture, not by modern standards. They minted coins depicting the rape of sabine, it wasn't viewed as a shameful or evil act.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 34d
She doesn't even have a fucking name. It's just "she-wolf".
The turks at least named theirs/ours. She's called Asena wait shit, wrong one. Asena
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 2 pts · 33d
*Reading the wikipedia entry* ah interesting sto
... Okaaayyyy?¿ Didn't know the Turks where the second furries after the Egyptians.
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
Oh just wait until you learn about animist religion.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 1 pts · 30d
I know animism in theory, but I'm not aware it includes wolf fucking by design? Just because a rock or a tree has a soul/spirit doesnt mean I can fuck it. Honestly it is the opposite in my eyes: you first need to get consent, if you believe it to be animated by a spirit.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 34d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d
LOL I saw that before you deleted it.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 34d
At least got a statue?
Anivia@feddit.org · 3 pts · 33d
This was on the cover of my latin textbook in school. Definitely uncomfortable to look at so frequently
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
They weren't raised by the wolf. She only suckled them as infants until the shepherd Faustulus arrived and he raised them with his prostitute wife.