Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology creates hundreds of wolves from his hairs, which frighten the inhabitants of Vraja into making the journey. Bhima, the voracious son of the god Vayu, is described as "Vrikodara", meaning "wolf-stomached". According to the Avesta, the sacred text of the Zoroastrians, wolves are a creation from the 'darkness' of the evil spirit Ahriman, and are ranked among the most cruel of animals. and belong to the "daevas". The "Bundahishn", which is a Middle Persian text on the Zoroastrian creation myth, has a chapter dedicated to the 'nature of wolves' as seen in Zoroastrian mythology and belief. In Roman mythology wolves
Violence and the Sacred Brown writes that Girard's purpose in "Violence and the Sacred" is to frighten people into returning to orthodox religion; Brown claims that Pope John Paul II liked the book. The religious studies scholar Catherine Bell writes that Girard uses "Freudian notions of desire, guilt, and an original murder at the hands of the group" to present "a theory of ritual sacrifice as the central act of a cultural system generated by primal violence." Bell finds Girard's views similar to those of the classicist Walter Burkert, as expressed in his book "Homo Necans" (1972). Chris Fleming writes that "Violence and the