00:00:00.080Greetings, I am currently reading this fine tome of knowledge and I stumbled upon an interesting passage that I thought to share with you all.
00:00:09.360So I'm reading about the Dacian spirituality.
00:00:14.260The Dacians, like many of the peoples of the Balkan and the Italic peninsulas, honored the spirit wolf.
00:00:20.680The Greek Lycaon, the wolfish Zeus and the Roman Apollo Lycaeus along with the goddess Feronia, the modern wolves,
00:00:27.760were all part of a long-established worship of the wolf.
00:00:31.940In Greece, philosophic gymnasia were dedicated to Lycaeus, a wolf god, hence the term Lycaeum.
00:00:39.200The Romans, as is well known, believed the infants Romulus and Remus were raised by Lupa, a she-wolf.
00:00:46.360One of the most celebrated Roman holidays was Lybercalia, wolf day.
00:00:51.040The Dacians likewise glorified the wolf, but at a higher spiritual level.
00:00:55.220According to Strabo, the name Daisha comes from Dai and Daos, both of which are very close to the Celtic-Gallic word Dawai, meaning wolf people.
00:01:06.380Legends and traditions claim that the Dacians were nicknamed wolf people and so their land came to be referred to as Daisha.
00:01:13.200They considered the wolf to be the lord of animals.
00:01:16.240In their religious beliefs, the wolf was the only effective power against evil, so it was also regarded as a guardian warrior.
00:01:23.300Because wolves lived in packs and took good care of their offspring, the animals were models of family dynamics.
00:01:30.020Dacians considered the relationship between man and wolf so close that they believed in the transformation of man into werewolf.
00:01:37.740The military symbols of antiquity were often animals that inspired either horror or admiration.
00:01:43.740The Egyptians were proud of the cobra, the Greeks had the minotaur, half man and half bull,
00:01:48.580the Celts loved the boar and the Romans sported the eagle on their standards.
00:01:53.720The wolf was a standard of the Dacians.
00:01:56.600Dacians considered themselves to be wolf warriors and adopted a battle flag that was named Drago or Draco.
00:02:04.360It was the demonic representation of a portable deity with three meanings.
00:02:08.900The wolf's head symbolized the conquest of the surface of the earth.
00:02:13.060The snake body signified underwater domination and the wings represented the vibration of life.
00:02:20.340The elongated part could represent the tail of a comet since the Dacians strongly believed that any luminous celestial display would destroy their enemies.
00:02:27.980The Dacogitian flag looked terrifying to their enemies because it projected the image of something undefeatable.
00:02:35.700It was carried on the tip of a lance and the open jaws of the wolf produced an eerie sound when the winds passed through it.
00:02:43.120It was, in essence, a flying deity believed to have the power to keep away evil spirits and protect its bearers from harm.
00:02:49.840A flying dragon unearthed at an archaeological site in Prahova in modern Romania provides evidence that the Dacians used this symbol since the 4th century BC.
00:03:01.240More than 10 versions of this standard were chiseled 5 centuries later on the Column of Tradian in Rome.
00:03:07.500Most likely each tribe had its own variation of the design.
00:03:11.380200 years after the Roman-Dacian wars were commemorated on the Column,
00:03:14.720many cohorts dacorum, Dacian cohorts, serving in the Roman army,
00:03:20.000still proudly bore the wolf-dragon standard in their travels throughout different parts of the world.
00:03:25.360It could be seen on the tombstones in a cemetery in Chester's Britannia,
00:03:30.280where it marked the graves of the Dacian warriors who had served there.
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