In Norse mythology, a wolf that chases the Moon across the sky, symbolizing chaos and the inevitable destruction of cosmic order.
From Old Norse 'Hati' meaning 'hater.' In Norse cosmology, Hati and his brother Sköll pursue the sun and moon respectively, and during Ragnarok (the end of the world), they finally catch and devour them.
Norse mythology predicted the end of the universe in exquisite detail—including that the sun-eating wolf Sköll and moon-eating wolf Hati would escape their cosmic bonds and trigger Ragnarok, a story so compelling that Richard Wagner used it as inspiration for his Ring Cycle operas over 2,000 years later!
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