How the Wolves Became the Brothers of Humans

Shamanic Healing Story

Given to Lyn Benedict

On  3-26-2009

My Power Animal took me to the Upper World to meet my teacher, a bald eagle, named J.J.  When I stated my intention of meeting an animal tribe that would like to tell me a story that I could tell to the whole world, J.J. took me to the valley of the wolves on a different planet than mine.  The wolves in the valley were too many to count.  One wolf stepped forward to tell me this story of how the wolves became the brothers of humans…….

Once upon a time a little wolf cub became lost from his siblings.  He traveled alone for many days.  One day he came upon some Indian boys playing by a stream.  The little wolf cub stayed hidden and watched the boys.  He had never seen anything like them before.  Suddenly, a Grizzly bear burst through the bushes into the opening where the boys were playing.  He stood on his hind feet and growled.  The Indian boys froze with fright.  They could not move.  Little wolf ran from his hiding place and stood between the boys and the Grizzly bear.  His courage caused him to shape shift into a huge wolf, larger than the Grizzly bear.  The bear had never seen a wolf so large and quickly dropped to all fours and ran away.  Then the little wolf shifted back to his very small size so as not to scare the children.

The children gathered around the cub and thanked him and asked him to come back to their camp with them.  The little wolf followed them back to their tribe.  The Indian boys told the elders of the courage of little wolf cub and how he had saved them from the huge Grizzly bear by becoming larger than the bear.  The elders were very grateful to the wolf cub for saving their children so they made the wolf cub a member of their tribe.  By doing this, they included all the wolves, everywhere, as their brothers.

To this day, the Wolf still sees himself as the guardian of humans, even though this is not how all humans perceive the wolf.  The wolves say that someday all men will see the wolf as their guardian!