King Lycaon was responsible for the Greek’s understanding of
why and how wolves exist.
Zeus went down, from the heavens, to Earth to see how the
people are living and if they are grateful for their lives from the gods. Zeus
visited King Lycaon. He was disguised as a mortal human being to prevent the
humans from dying in his divine presence. King Lycaon was the father of
approximately fifty children. When King Lycaon and his family were sitting down
for their last meal of the day, Zeus was let into the house, and sat down next
to King Lycaon. Zeus told the king that he was the god of the heavens, but King
Lycaon did not believe him. King Lycaon took one of his sons and slaughtered
him in front of the god of the sky. The king thought that if he killed and
served one of his sons to Zeus, than Zeus would prove that he was actually a
god, and not just a regular mortal. He also did this to test Zeus’s divinity.
King Lycaon put his slaughtered and dismembered son in front of Zeus. Zeus was
angered by this action and turned the disrespectful king into a wolf. He did this
because if King Lycaon slaughtered an innocent child and showed how much
destruction he was capable of, he could do it as a destructive animal. King
Lycaon retreated into the woods after Zeus transformed him into an animal.
After this event, Zeus returned to his rightful home on Mount Olympus with the
other gods and goddesses. Zeus reflected on the brutality of the human beings
underneath him on Earth. Because of this event, Zeus decided to flood the
earth, restarting the lives of human beings. In the Christian point of view,
this would be seen as Noah’s Ark.
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