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Post by Montezuma on May 12, 2022 0:40:53 GMT -5
Bear idols from Han dynasty, probably used for worship of bears.
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Post by Montezuma on May 13, 2022 22:27:09 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 13, 2022 22:35:03 GMT -5
"Like other peoples of the Amur, the Orok revered the bear. The ritual of the bear hunt, the festival after catching the animal, the observance of a "number of taboos" during meals, the ritual burial of the bones of the consumed animal—all this differed from customs carried out in such instances by the Ul'cha, Orochi, and Nivkh. The same can be said about the bear festival, which is held two to four years after keeping the animal in captivity (beginning as a small cub). The captivity itself was dependent on several prohibitions."
"They considered the bear the son of the master of the forest."
"Deviation from the ancient rules (i.e., violation of the taboos) incurred the anger of the master and required the death of the violator or one of his kinsmen. A huge crowd gathered for the bear festival, at which reindeer races and games were organized."
www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orok
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Post by Montezuma on May 13, 2022 22:42:39 GMT -5
The Orochi
"A special rite was held with a bear that was kept captive for two years, honored with a feast and sacrifices and then killed. Many shaman were women."
factsanddetails.com/russia/Minorities/sub9_3e/entry-5127.html
"An ancestor cult as well as cults of the nerpa, tiger, killer whale, and the bear existed. The Orochi kept a bear in captivity for two to three years (as did the Amur Nivkh and the Ul'cha). At the end of this period, kin and friends gathered; the festival entailed leading the bear around the houses and was accompanied by food, sacrifices, games, and dances, ending with the slaughter of the animal, the ceremonial eating of its meat, and burial of its bones."
(Note that The Oroch worshipped nerpa, killer whale, tigers and bears. But they only held just Bear-festival, no festival for any other animal. A proof that bears are more revered among Amur people).
www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orochi
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Post by Montezuma on May 15, 2022 20:08:08 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 15, 2022 20:18:01 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 15, 2022 20:36:04 GMT -5
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Post by Gorilla king on May 16, 2022 10:28:35 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 16, 2022 20:43:11 GMT -5
Reply#48.
Thats is very very nice thing bro. In the 'Master of the taiga' thread, we alreadily have many proof that the bear is called as master by all the siberian people including the Amur region. Further, we also had some sources showing that the native Amur/Manchurian people like Tungus, Nanai and Oroki called the bear as master. Now this source not only says that the Amur-dwelling Udege tribe called the brown bear as the Master but all the Amur people called the bear as master of the forest/animals/mountains. And now we have legit proof that bears are called as Master of the taiga in the area where there tiger is too. The debate of taiga's master is over. We have stringly proofed that the bear is the Master.
I further quote some ritual of bear held by Udege and other Amur people over here. Some tigerfan boys say that tigers are more revered than bears but i have alreadily disproven this statement here:-
beargorillarealm.proboards.com/post/4925
Here is shows that the Udege tribes held numerous rituals after a bear hunt and feast.
"The bear hunting and bear feast is followed and accompanied by numerous rituals that played an important sacral role in the life of the Amur people."
"This feast usually is literature is known as 'bear festival' ".
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Post by Montezuma on May 16, 2022 22:07:21 GMT -5
"The bear festival takes a particular place in the life of Ulchas (as well as of other Amur people). It is a religious and mystical action devoted to the “master” of all bears, with ancient detailed rituals and plenty of taboos and rites. It was considered that other animals also had their “masters”, e.g. sable, a dream of every Ulcha hunter.
"Eating bear meat was a ritual; men ate meat from the fore-part of the carcass, women from the back part."
"Tungkere are ritual folk tunes played with a percussion log, which sounds continuously in the time of the bear festival—the tunes form a multipart composition consisting of several alternating melodies: buyugira undzini (“bear goes visiting”) is performed while making a sacrificial round of houses with a bear."
luonnonkansat.livejournal.com/30790.html
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Post by Montezuma on May 16, 2022 22:17:55 GMT -5
Bear dance among the Amur people.
"Imitation of bear’s motions serves as a basis of “bear dances”. Only the women participating in the festival danced. The dances preceding ritual killing of a bear, and those next to it were especially emotional. They were directed by a “bear’s wet nurse”. Dancing at other stages of the festival was for pleasure. Most of the rituals of the festival were accompanied by a musical log, played usually by women and girls. “Bear dances” are related to the twin worship; the twins’ mother sang solo while holding ritual shavings in her hands (her funeral was also accompanied by playing a musical log and dancing a “bear dance”)."
"Dances created on the basis of traditions, legends and folklore, performed to the accompany of sticks and tambourines, are of special interest: Seagull over the Amur, The Amur’s Nine Daughters, Bear dance, Kho-Kho-Kho."
luonnonkansat.livejournal.com/30790.html
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Post by Montezuma on May 20, 2022 22:13:19 GMT -5
Now here, these pages are about the shamanic beliefs of the Nanay people of the Amur region. These papers are only about religion, not for bears. It is worth to be noted that the dog, tiger and deer are only one or two time mentioned in their religion while the brown bear is heavily mentioned in their religious rituals and mythology meaning brown bears play a great role in Nanay amur people religion than any other animal. In other words, if anybody reads nanay religion, so he will notice that the bear is more oftenly mentioned than anyother animal. Hete is the page's chapter introduction. (Note its only about religion, not about bears in Nanay religion).
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Post by Montezuma on May 20, 2022 22:34:33 GMT -5
"In the Amur bear cult, the Taiga man gradually replaced the beast by the slain bear."
"There are two types of bear ceremonies. The first is to kill a bear and save one of its offspring and hand it to family to raise it. Year two or four years, a ceremony is held in which the bear is killed in ritual. The flaying of the skin, dissecting the carrcass and buruing the bones is the representation of the forest-dwelling diety. In the afterworld, the bear meets the ancestors and instruct them. The bones were also buried in the log cabin and sacred parts were hung on trees."
"The bear was then thought to travel the bloodlines of the families' groom and bride sides."
"In this stage, the beast was a mediator between generations. The taiga man was transffered into a bear, gradually covering with fur. He granted hunting success and health, abd returned to the world into form on bear cub."
"The second version was to kill an adult bear by hunting and then his skeleton was hung with a tree symbolising reincarcination. This form of worship, is thought to be link with the bear's role in ancestral mountain worship."
"Many figures represent an abstract bear. Some designs-the head, the chin, the lower limbs and the depth and angle of the cult shows encoded information."
"Artifacts depicting bears has been found throughout Neolithic age. The ancient cult of the bear is largely found in Nannay lexicon. The bear's body parts, age, sex difference and soul are named with separate terms, differing from those used for other animals, and do not have analogies anywhere else."
"The taboo words related with the bear and the special posotion of the man injuried by a bear (galkunay) point the natural sacred status of the bear befire the twententh century. The Amur bear ritual, or "Bear festival" contains archaic elements."
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.academia.edu/37138496/Sacred_territory_in_the_Earthly_world_for_the_Amur_Nanai_Russian_Far_East_&ved=2ahUKEwiBpsCK7O_3AhUS-4UKHblvAVoQFnoECA8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw3n8Q8Ic8Hs7Tq0rZvvNarE
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Post by Montezuma on May 20, 2022 23:54:56 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on May 21, 2022 20:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 9, 2022 6:20:24 GMT -5
"In the Nanai mythological and ritual system, gyasada shavings were used in cults associated with water, the ruler of which was the water bear. The same cultural pattern can be seen if we juxtapose the Nanai gyasada and the Ainu inau cults. Among the Ainu, Nivkhs, and Ulchi, the elements of inau at the bear festival were applied to the bear as the chief deity of the taiga, mountains, and hunting (Pilsudski, 1915: 67–118; Zolotarev, 1939: 104– 194; Kreinovich, 1973: 169–241)."
"In the Nanai traditional worldview, the bear became the equivalent of a natural principle and a shamanic category (Ivanov, 1937). This rethought concept reveals an archaic layer of beliefs related to the taiga deity as patron of river and seashing, governing over the floodplain with the plants serving as materials for inau or gyasada."
Source:-
ELEMENTS OF THE INAU CULT IN ETHNIC AND CULTURAL CONTACTS OF THE SOUTHERN FAR EAST
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 15, 2022 10:29:48 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 15, 2022 22:21:39 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 15, 2022 22:24:36 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 18, 2022 21:18:53 GMT -5
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