{"id":3127,"date":"2013-06-09T09:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:55:43","slug":"the-story-of-the-two-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/06\/the-story-of-the-two-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the two wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since some of you like tracing first references of things, I want to alert you to an interesting development in the comments thread of a recent post. <a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/06\/a-new-myth\/#comment-51922\">Amanda posted a comment<\/a> in which she said she had been powerfully moved by the native American story of the two wolves, a good one and a bad one, who are fighting; the one you feed the most is the one who wins the fight. I like that story, too, and Amanda&#8217;s comment got me wondering which Native people the story came from; the earliest printed reference I could find for the story was a 1964 book on Christian prayer which attributed the story to the Mohave people; in that version, it&#8217;s two dogs who are fighting, not two wolves. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/06\/a-new-myth\/#comment-51947\">Erp got in the act<\/a>, and found the story in a 1914 Bible commentary, where the story was attributed to &#8220;an Indian.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m really interested in this question. If you can find an earlier printed reference to the story, I&#8217;ll send you a fair trade chocolate bar, in addition to which you get bragging rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And thanks, Amanda, for starting us off on this interesting quest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since some of you like tracing first references of things, I want to alert you to an interesting development in the comments thread of a recent post. Amanda posted a comment in which she said she had been powerfully moved by the native American story of the two wolves, a good one and a bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/06\/the-story-of-the-two-wolves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The story of the two wolves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10734,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/10734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}