[Ansteorra] Enders game and Re: honor and animals

[Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
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> What is "Ender's Game"?
Ender's Game is a book by Orson Scott Card.  Basically children are 
enlisted by the government to play a 'game'.  By the end of the novel  
you find they have actually been identifying the natural leaders and 
then employing them to win a war against an insectoid race.  The war 
started because we simply could not communicate  and our ways of 
thinking were so utterly alien to each other.  This started as a short 
story and the author received so many requests to amplify the story line 
that it is now a series of novels well worth reading.
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>> But back to the point of this discussion, if you read my previous 
>> post, the people of the Middle Ages would see a certain behavior or 
>> trait in an animal as a characteristic of a human's virtue.
>>
>> From the same source:
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> I haven't read all the other threads yet. Which source?

http://bestiary.ca/etexts/evans1896/evans%20-%20animal%20symbolism%20in%20ecclesiastical%20architecture.pdf

Warning:  long and difficult reading though interesting.  I have not 
plowed through all of it completely yet myself.
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>> A peculiarity of the wolf is that it cannot turn its head, because 
>> there is no joint in its neck, but must turn its whole body
>> when it wishes to look behind, thus symbolizing people stiff-necked 
>> and stubborn in sin.
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> Oh? I hadn't noticed this. I'll have to watch my dog (Snowball, the 
> dog that pulls the wagon) and see.
Is she/he a wolf?  I don't know if it is true of all breeds, but seemed 
to be true for our thick necked ~75% timber/tundra wolf we had for 
fifteen years.