Governing all directions (east, south, west, north and center), they correspond not only to the Five Elements, but to the seasons, the Five Sacred Peaks, the Five Planets, and zodiac symbols as well. In stanza 40 of the poem Völuspá, a völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr "and bred there the broods of Fenrir. Bixia herself is identified by Taoists as the more ancient goddess Xiwangmu, [74] The general Chinese term for "goddess" is 女神 nǚshén, and goddesses may receive many qualifying titles, including mǔ ( 母 "mother"), lǎomǔ ( 老母 "old mother"), shèngmǔ ( 聖母 "holy mother"), niángniáng ( 娘娘 "lady"), nǎinai ( 奶奶 "granny"). This article or section should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{ lang}}, {{ transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{ IPA}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.

Hindus traditionally considered the hunting of wolves, even dangerous ones, as taboo, for fear of causing a bad harvest. Lóngshén — Dragon Gods, or 龍王 Lóngwáng — Dragon Kings: also Sìhǎi Lóngwáng ( 四海龍王 "Dragon Kings of the Four Seas"), are gods of watery sources, usually reduced to four, patrons of the Four Seas ( sihai 四海) and the four cardinal directions. As an excess of fire brings destruction to the earth, it has to be controlled by a ruling principle. Yanwang ( 閻王 "Purgatory King") [iv] the ruler of the underworld, assisted by the Heibai Wuchang ( 黑白無常 "Black and White Impermanence"), representing the alternation of yin and yang principles, alongside Ox-Head and Horse-Face, who escort spirits to his realm. One of the earliest written references to black wolves occurs in the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, in which the titular character rejects the sexual advances of the goddess Ishtar, reminding her that she had transformed a previous lover, a shepherd, into a wolf, thus turning him into the very animal that his flocks must be protected against.The ruler Taxmoruw (Taxma Urupi) managed to lasso Ahriman (Angra Mainyu) and keep him tied up while taking him for a ride three times a day. Indian wolf vocalization includes howls, howl-barks, whimper, social squeals, and whines with howls an average fundamental frequency of 422Hz and whines 906Hz. The cross features various figures depicted in Borre style, including a man with a spear facing a monstrous head, one of whose feet is thrust into the beast's forked tongue and on its lower jaw, while a hand is placed against its upper jaw, a scene interpreted as Víðarr fighting Fenrir. Wǔdì — Five Deities, [57] also Wǔfāng Shàngdì ( 五方上帝 "Five Manifestations of the Highest Deity"), Wǔfāng Tiānshén ( 五方天神 "Five Manifestations of the Heavenly God"), Wǔfāngdì ( 五方帝 "Five Forms Deity"), Wǔtiāndì ( 五天帝 "Five Heavenly Deities"), Wǔlǎojūn ( 五老君 "Five Ancient Lords"), Wǔdàoshén ( 五道神 "Five Ways God(s)"); they are the five main "horizontal" manifestations of Heaven, and along with the Three Potencies, they have a celestial, a terrestrial, and a chthonic form. As in such a symbiosis, Odin the father of all humans and gods, though in human form was imperfect by himself.

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2016), "Chinese religions", in Woodhead, Linda; Kawanami, Hiroko; Partridge, Christopher H. Meyer Schapiro theorizes a connection between the " Hell Mouth" that appears in medieval Christian iconography and Fenrir. The worship of mother goddesses for the cultivation of offspring is present all over China, but predominantly in northern provinces.The universal principle that gives origin to the world is conceived as transcendent and immanent to creation, at the same time. MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository) Illustrations of Fenrir from manuscripts and early print books. These combined elements have led to the cross as being described as " syncretic art"; a mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs. First Nations such as Naskapi as well as Squamish and Lil'wat view the wolf as a daytime hunting guide. A small wolf population of 80-100 occurs in the Golan Heights, and is well protected by the military activities there.

The Bundahishn, which is a Middle Persian text on the Zoroastrian creation myth, has a chapter dedicated to the 'nature of wolves' as seen in Zoroastrian mythology and belief. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. Freki is also used in a kenning for "carrion" ("Freki's meal") in a work by Þórðr Sjáreksson in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál. In chapter 2, "wolf's enemy" is cited as a kenning for Odin as used by the 10th century skald Egill Skallagrímsson.High continues that, once the gods found that these three children were being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods "traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them" the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father. The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution.