Horkew Kamuy
In ancient Japan, there was a mbwa mwitu god named Horkew Kamuy, “the howling mbwa mwitu god” who lived on the juu of a mountain and helped the humans sometimes with their problems. Problems like fire, disease and disasters. The humans would climb to his mountain temples and pray for his help and Horkew Kamuy would send one of his magic white Mbwa mwitu loups down the mountain to help out the humans below.
In return, the humans had to promise two things. One, to feed these magic white Mbwa mwitu loups and two, to return them unharmed to Horkew Kamuy when things got better.
This deal worked very well for a long time but after a while the humans got greedy and stopped feeding the wolves. Worse, they stopped returning them to the mountains tops where they belonged. They chained them up in cages instead.
In anger, Horkew Kamuy stopped sending the white Mbwa mwitu loups and decided to start sending vicious mtu-bweha instead. But first he needed a bride to help him. He looked all over the world for a human bride to help him and finally found one in the Japanese court. He sent a mashua to bring her to a beautiful island and came down to Earth to meet her. His Japanese bride was so beautiful that she melted Horkew Kamuy’s anger. They fell in upendo and nine months later the first Children of the White mbwa mwitu were born. Many zaidi followed.
So the Children of the White mbwa mwitu were originally Horkew Kamuy’s revenge on humanity, but in fact these first mtu-bweha lived a life of great upendo and beauty. Centuries later, they still wear the White mbwa mwitu sinew of Horkew Kamuy but many of them live peaceful lives.
The First Lycanthropes
Around 3100 BCE, a pack of Mbwa mwitu loups helped Osiris defend a city in Upper Egypt against an invading army. It was a bloody battle and many of the Mbwa mwitu loups died but the invaders were successfully defeated.
In honor of these brave Mbwa mwitu loups and their sacrifice, Osiris re-named this city “Lycopolis” au mbwa mwitu City and ordered the bodies of the fallen Mbwa mwitu loups to be mummified beneath the city for resurrection in the underworld.
For the heroic Mbwa mwitu loups who fought so valiantly and lived, Osiris went one step further, granting them human form in addition to their mbwa mwitu form – the very first lycanthropes.
Legend has it now that every full moon, the descendants of these first Lycopolitan Lycanthropes can call on their Underworld ancestors to rejoin them on earth and the pack will run together again as long as the moon is full, the living and the undead shadow mtu-bweha of Osiris.
