Bear worship is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, Basques[citation...
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transforming into bears. There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though this is disputed by archaeologists. It is possible that bear worship existed in...
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There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though this is disputed by archaeologists. It is possible that bear worship existed in early Chinese and Ainu...
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Matagi continue to hunt deer and bear in the present day, and their culture has much in common with the bear worship of the Ainu people. With the introduction...
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A bear attack is an attack by a bear on another animal, although it usually refers to a bear attacking a human or domestic pet. Bear attacks are of particular...
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child. Wilfred Bonser, "The Mythology of the Kalevala, with Notes on Bear-Worship among the Finns" (1928), pp. 344-358. Kalevala, translated by John Martin...
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rupert Bear, Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though archaeologists dispute...
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The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years...
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Artio (category Bear deities)
Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern in Switzerland. Her name is derived from the Gaulish word for 'bear', artos...
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Nanook (category Animal worship)
Nanook, the polar bear, was powerful and mighty, and they thought that he was "almost man." The Inuit hunters would worship this great bear because they believed...
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