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Wolf-God of Woodeaton

Source: Atlas Obscura

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The Woodeaton wolf-god. Monsieur Mictlan (Atlas Obscura User)
The gray wolf was an animal with religious significance to both Romans and ancient Britons. Martin Falbisoner
The British museum where the wolf-god is displayed. Morio

In the Romano-Briton galleries of the British Museum, a small and eerie sculpture can be seen.

It is known as the “wolf-god of Woodeaton” and is an artifact genuinely shrouded in mystery.

The figurine portrays a great muscular lupine creature. This hulking beast is shown devouring a human corpse whose lower half hangs limply from the beast’s ravenous maw like a rag doll. The artifact was discovered in the 1800s in a rural Oxfordshire village called Woodeaton during an excavation by an archeologist and antiquities collector who later donated it to the museum.

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