Always been a 'loner' even though I had the skills necessary to do otherwise. My workerdrone career involved the helping professions and I was very good at it developing excellent interactive skills but always been a 'loner', or so it seemed. Around 20 yrs ago I went thru a 'question everything and start over' phase where I began to embrace that aspect of myself, recognizing the value in it. I am a fringe dweller among fringe dwellers and in that there is value.
Through my intuition led roamings I ran across an excerpt from an Anthropomorphic literature piece that, the first time I read it 20 yrs ago, it brought tears. I chose it to be part of my personal mythology so I thought I'd share it here for some other Utlah to read it to help heal that wounded heart on those days when we need it.
The term "Utlah" is used to describe a lone or vagrant wolf which has been rejected by the pack. The "Utlah" wolves are no longer called by their true or birth name, but under the collective label of Utlah. Their social standing is the lowest possible, with the rest of the pack either ignoring them or attacking them. The Utlah are forced to follow the pack at a distance, by themselves, constantly reminded of their previous life in the pack. They become the pack's "boogey men", with cubs being warned to be good, or the Utlah will get you...
Utlah are banished from the pack for being different, or for not acting "for the good of the pack". These can either be wolves who are mentally disturbed, or wolves who are just strange or fanciful, not conforming to the idealized image of the wolf. Away from the pack the wolves are left to fend for themselves, and eat with the rest of the scavengers who follow around the pack. This gives rise to another term for Utlah, Raven-Wolf.
These wolves are only treated with respect on one occasion, in one of the wolf's legends:
Through my intuition led roamings I ran across an excerpt from an Anthropomorphic literature piece that, the first time I read it 20 yrs ago, it brought tears. I chose it to be part of my personal mythology so I thought I'd share it here for some other Utlah to read it to help heal that wounded heart on those days when we need it.
The term "Utlah" is used to describe a lone or vagrant wolf which has been rejected by the pack. The "Utlah" wolves are no longer called by their true or birth name, but under the collective label of Utlah. Their social standing is the lowest possible, with the rest of the pack either ignoring them or attacking them. The Utlah are forced to follow the pack at a distance, by themselves, constantly reminded of their previous life in the pack. They become the pack's "boogey men", with cubs being warned to be good, or the Utlah will get you...
Utlah are banished from the pack for being different, or for not acting "for the good of the pack". These can either be wolves who are mentally disturbed, or wolves who are just strange or fanciful, not conforming to the idealized image of the wolf. Away from the pack the wolves are left to fend for themselves, and eat with the rest of the scavengers who follow around the pack. This gives rise to another term for Utlah, Raven-Wolf.
These wolves are only treated with respect on one occasion, in one of the wolf's legends:
