Here are two images of wolves drawn in Valparaíso: the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus and the 'lobos del mar' sea wolves. Returning to the symbolism of Clarissa Pinkola Estés' writing on the female psyche, here she explains why she chose the wolf:
Healthy wolves
and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened
capacity for devotion. Wolves and women
are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and
strength. They are deeply intuitive,
intensely concerned with their young, their mates and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly
changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.
Yet both have been hounded, harassed, and falsely
imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than
those who are their detractors. They
have been the targets of those who would clean up the wilds as well as the
wildish environs of the psyche, extincting the instinctual, and leaving no
trace of it behind. The predation of
wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.
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