WereHistory

I have been at Ganieda’s now for over a week.  Time slips here.  I’m not even certain that time reaches us here.  

I have learned a lot in my time here. Gaieda is very wise.  She knows much that is not known, by most weredogs, or people. 

I have not felt this rested in a long time.  I have rested and run, eaten and talked at length with Ganieda, and others, about many things.  But, now it is time to lay down some of what is know, within werelore, about the history of canines, dogs, and wolves.

Canines first made their appearance about 40 million yrs ago.  Since then there have been many canine species come and go, small and large. One of the smallest still is around today, foxes.  Not long ago, around a million years, there was a canine that scientists call “borophagus.” It looked like a gray wolf and was as big as a lion.  Ganieda says there were canines much smaller, and much, much larger. 

Just for perspective: the first hominids, primates who walked upright, on 2 legs, first stood up to take a bow around 4.5 mil years ago.  Homo habilis was around from 2.5 million years to around 1.5 million years. Best scientific estimates are that around 250,000 years ago homo sapiens, modern man, showed up in what is now Africa.

230,000 years ago neanderthals appeared in Europe. They were better suited to ad preferred colder climates.  They had what is now Europe all to themselves.  For a while.  Then modern man started showing up.

Around 40,000 years ago humans began migrating from Africa to Europe.  All was good.   Everyone got along and lived peacefully. For a while.  Then something happened, and fighting broke out between the two species. War ensured for about 10,000 years.  

Homo sapiens, modern man, proved to be better at fighting and killing.  He was more intelligent. That allowed him to make better weapons, devise better tactics, for hunting and fighting. Man’s language skills were far superior to neanderthals. That allowed for more coordination and sharing of information, building of tribes and communities, which meant greater numbers, more people. 

Starting about 28,000 years ago neanderthals began to recede and hide, to go higher into mountains and hills, farther into remote reaches, to escape men.  Ganieda says some were absorbed into human populations.  That explains some of the men I have known.

Something happened around 500,000 years ago. It sparked a lot of diversification, adaptation and change. It is directly responsible for man’s evolution, and or werefolk.  Human science doesn’t know what the event was, nor does werelore.  Some say it was an asteroid loaded with some sort of minerals that radiated everything.  Some say it was  a magnetic shift in the earth.  Some say it was aliens.  Ganieda says it was none of those.  But, she will not say what, only smiles.

Wolves preceded dogs just as neanderthals preceded man.  It was nature’s intent for us to replace wolves and for man to replace neanderthals.  Man showed up around 250,000 years ago. Dogs made their first bark around 400,000 years ago.  That is contrary to what human scientists say.  They trace dog origins back to between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago.  

Werewolves date back to around that event 500,000 years ago, whatever it was.  We, weredogs, made out first howl around 300,000 years ago. Things were getting crowded.  This planet, even though we did not think in terms of “planet” back then, could only host so many super-predators.  2 of us had to go. 

There was some initial talk between wolves ad dogs about banding together to get rid of  the hominids.  It was quickly realized that would not work. So, the alternative was for each of us, dogs and wolves, to choose up between men and neanders.  We, dogs, recognized your supreme abilities as hunters and warriors.

We won.  24,500 years ago is the last known neanderthals evidence.  It was found about 10 years ago in a high mountain cave in Italy.  Wolves, on the other had, survived and, contrary to popular belief, adopted the strategy of keeping their distance from man and dog, but waiting for the opportunity for revenge.

We maintained our bond after the war. From 15,00 to 8,000 years ago, the dog-man alliance became solid, globally, everywhere.  Dogs and men were inseparable.  Over time weredogs slipped back into dog anonymity and allowed weredog mythology to blend with that of werewolves and into quaint antiquity.  By the time the last ice age ended, about 12,000 years ago, man and dog covered the globe, thanks to land bridges, boats, and the insatiable and keenly coordinated tooth and spear. 

3,500 yrs ago was dawn of civilization. Cities started rising,  as did armies, wars, agriculture, markets, commerce, art, philosophy, architecture and codified laws.  Dogs were right by man’s side, and weredogs were right behind him, watching, staying alert.

OK.  Enough history.  Time to eat. Ganieda makes a venison hash that will make you howl for sure. 

More later.  I need to explain werephysiology and weresex, to prove to those of you who doubt that this is for real.