sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-02-03 12:10 pm

The little foxes came out at eve to carry their bones away

Via [livejournal.com profile] cucumberseed: 16,500 years ago in Jordan, there were foxes buried in human graves. The authors of the original paper believe they might have been, if not precisely pets, then "potential domesticates . . . smaller and easier to control—although more skittish and timid—than the wolf. It seems likely that foxes could have shared a similar type of relationship with humans as wolves did, even if they were never truly domesticated." I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2011-02-03 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Er, whatever they would have called 'em, I think we'd want to translate it "fox spirits" :)