Huh, interesting; I'd never thought about it being metaphorical like that. To me, Mama Wolf is a lover, a woman, who holds for the singer a mystical, spiritual quality akin to his feelings towards nature, and in particular he recognises her as part of nature. Feels kinda like he's giving her this name - a bit like a Native American name - to encapsulate the particular energy she radiates and the quality of her soul. She is, perhaps, a maternal person by nature, but with a deep wildness/fierceness too. DB seems to often talk about lovers with reference to them as mothers as well, nurturing etc, and to take pleasure in women's reproductive capacity as a wondrous thing, quite spiritual in its naturalness - not just an unfortunate side-effect of sexy times! It's unusual and, to me, as a woman, very sexy :) And he sees her most for who she truly is when they are in wild, natural places.
Huh, interesting; I'd never thought about it being metaphorical like that. To me, Mama Wolf is a lover, a woman, who holds for the singer a mystical, spiritual quality akin to his feelings towards nature, and in particular he recognises her as part of nature. Feels kinda like he's giving her this name - a bit like a Native American name - to encapsulate the particular energy she radiates and the quality of her soul. She is, perhaps, a maternal person by nature, but with a deep wildness/fierceness too. DB seems to often talk about lovers with reference to them as mothers as well, nurturing etc, and to take pleasure in women's reproductive capacity as a wondrous thing, quite spiritual in its naturalness - not just an unfortunate side-effect of sexy times! It's unusual and, to me, as a woman, very sexy :) And he sees her most for who she truly is when they are in wild, natural places.