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edit ] 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
to kill them, however, relented and placed the two on the banks of the tiber river . the river, which was in flood, rose and gently carried the cradle and the twins downstream, where under the protection of the river deity tiberinus , they would be adopted by a she-wolf known as lupa in latin , an animal...
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