Horkew Kamuy
In ancient Japan, there was a নেকড়ে god named Horkew Kamuy, “the howling নেকড়ে god” who lived on the শীর্ষ of a mountain and helped the humans sometimes with their problems. Problems like fire, disease and disasters. The humans would climb to his mountain temples and pray for his help and Horkew Kamuy would send one of his magic white নেকড়ে down the mountain to help out the humans below.
In return, the humans had to promise two things. One, to feed these magic white নেকড়ে and two, to return them unharmed to Horkew Kamuy when things got better.
This deal worked very well for a long time but after a while the humans got greedy and stopped feeding the wolves. Worse, they stopped returning them to the mountains tops where they belonged. They chained them up in cages instead.
In anger, Horkew Kamuy stopped sending the white নেকড়ে and decided to start sending vicious নেকড়ে-মানুষ instead. But first he needed a bride to help him. He looked all over the world for a human bride to help him and finally found one in the Japanese court. He sent a নৌকা to bring her to a beautiful island and came down to Earth to meet her. His Japanese bride was so beautiful that she melted Horkew Kamuy’s anger. They fell in প্রণয় and nine months later the first Children of the White নেকড়ে were born. Many আরো followed.
So the Children of the White নেকড়ে were originally Horkew Kamuy’s revenge on humanity, but in fact these first নেকড়ে-মানুষ lived a life of great প্রণয় and beauty. Centuries later, they still wear the White নেকড়ে sinew of Horkew Kamuy but many of them live peaceful lives.
The First Lycanthropes
Around 3100 BCE, a pack of নেকড়ে helped Osiris defend a city in Upper Egypt against an invading army. It was a bloody battle and many of the নেকড়ে died but the invaders were successfully defeated.
In honor of these ব্রেভ নেকড়ে and their sacrifice, Osiris re-named this city “Lycopolis” অথবা নেকড়ে City and ordered the bodies of the fallen নেকড়ে to be mummified beneath the city for resurrection in the underworld.
For the heroic নেকড়ে who fought so valiantly and lived, Osiris went one step further, granting them human form in addition to their নেকড়ে form – the very first lycanthropes.
Legend has it now that every full moon, the descendants of these first Lycopolitan Lycanthropes can call on their আন্ডারওয়ার্ল্ড ancestors to rejoin them on earth and the pack will run together again as long as the moon is full, the living and the undead shadow নেকড়ে-মানুষ of Osiris.
