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Post by Montezuma on Jun 18, 2022 21:26:47 GMT -5
I cannot understand that how I mistakenly forget this statement to mention. Jahu jahuan himseld say that the bear is more reverer that the tiger in Amur region! Awesome. (Boreal region also contains Amur region where indeed bear festivals were held)
"It may be noted that no other beast, not even the tiger, is revered in this way in the boreal zone."
Dualistic system in religion means good and evil. In dualistic religion of the Amur region, the bear is always present, while the tiger is seldomly present as the other animals like elks or whales are present instead of tigers. Meaning bears have more impact on the Amur religions that anyother animal.
"Moreover, in dualistic systems involving the cult of two animals, the bear is always there, while the other animal may vary from tiger to elk to whale."
"Nevertheless, in the context of the Bear Festival bear bones have a significance different from the bones of other animals."
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/acta/20/asi20-001-janhunen.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj6tKnKu7j4AhXzQvEDHcLUBZkQFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2XMBsvD7gQVb5mU8ali5E3
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Post by Montezuma on Jun 18, 2022 21:34:56 GMT -5
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Post by Gorilla king on Jun 18, 2022 21:42:38 GMT -5
What a find bro! awesome! Very nice.
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Post by Montezuma on Jul 16, 2022 14:37:34 GMT -5
Tibetian blue bears are revered in tibet natives
"Bears are important in the Tibetan cultural tradition – they are regarded by herders as protectors of the land. Even late last century, herders would use a dried bear paw, handed down through the generations, to draw a circle around any tent or building they erected, using the bear as an intermediary to send a message to the gods, apologising and asking forgiveness for any offence caused."
"Traditionally, the bears are more respected than feared. Many herders think the increasing conflict is a consequence of human damage to the land – a kind of punishment. And while they are scared of the bears, they are reluctant to cause them harm. If the locals and bears are to coexist in the long term, it will be essential to respect local traditions, make use of cultural wisdom about living alongside wildlife and increase levels of tolerance towards the bears."
www.google.com/amp/s/chinadialogue.net/en/nature/resolving-human-bear-conflict-on-the-qinghai-tibetan-plateau/%3famp
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 21, 2022 14:57:25 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 24, 2022 17:09:41 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 25, 2022 17:01:05 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 25, 2022 17:07:22 GMT -5
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 26, 2022 16:40:02 GMT -5
In chinese culture, the combination of owl and bear or bear and eagle is more common than the combination of owl and tiger. "A systematic understanding can be achieved by referring to the image of the griffin, the combination of an eagle and a lion, in the Western world, while the combination of an owl and a bear or an eagle and a bear is more common in Chinese culture."
books.google.com.pk/books?id=IoCFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA422&dq=bear+in+chinese+culture&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimxMKzoo78AhUdQaQEHQXpAR8Q6AF6BAgHEAM&authuser=1#v=onepage&q=bear%20in%20chinese%20culture&f=falseAbout bears being revered in Ancient Chinese culture. "The third type of evidence helps to explain difficult problems that are either not solved or addressed in the inherited literature. Taking the puzzle of the clan name "Youxiong" as an example, the sacred nature of the bear and the ritual activity of offering sacrifices to bear deities can still be found among ethnic (predominantly hunter) groups in the north, such as the Orogen, Ewenki, and Hezhe peoples. In the Nuo rituals recorded in The Rites of Zhou, the palm of Fang Xiangshi, a Chinese ritual exorcist, is covered with a bear's skin. Does this obscure detail have its origins in the rites of the Yellow Emperor? Answering this question relies on looking to what is known about the big tradition. The Goddess Temple in Niuheliang, Jianping. Liaoning Province, discovered in the 1980s, is a religious building site of the Hong- shan culture, who built it around than 5000 years ago (Fig. 4.2). Along with the statue of the goddess, skulls of real bears and clay sculptures of bears were also discovered. One may categorize these unearthed cultural relics and images as the fourth type of evidence. This evidence demonstrates that the ancient inhabitants of north China did worship the bear god 5000 years ago, perhaps even regarding the bear god as ancestrally tied to them, spiritually connected to their people (in other words, their "totem") The legends of Fuxi named "Huangxiong" from 5000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor's clan name being "Youxiong", and the motif of "transforming into bear" in the myth of sage kings such as Gun and Yu from 4000 years ago are not literary creations based on the whims of later generations, but the surviving fragments of a vague memory of the big tradition passed down in myth and legend. Before the emergence of widespread agriculture, human beings had to survive through hunting and gathering. Hundreds of thousands of years of hunting will be bound to leave behind traces based on the close observation to animals."
"For example, people take it for granted that the original form of the Chinese character (xiong, bear) is E (neng, can). Few people have asked this question from ancient to modern times: why does the later character have four dots under E? Knowing the profound tradition of bear deity worship and that ancient peoples regarded the hibernation of bears as symbolic of resurrection from the dead, it is understandable that the ancient peoples of China abstracted the concept of E from the image of the largest carnivorous bear on the East Asian continent. In addition to pictographic Chinese characters that preserve old concepts to this day, there is still a large amount of traditional information that exists in the form of living fossils. For example, in order to obtain the life-regenerating energy of the bear deity through imitation, bear exercise is practiced through the five animal exercises (wu qin xi, Fi ), which teach people to learn the active posture of the bear (according to the principle of bionics) and thus to obtain an enhanced practical benefit."
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Post by Montezuma on Dec 26, 2022 16:56:04 GMT -5
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Post by Gorilla king on Mar 31, 2023 16:55:52 GMT -5
The Image of a Bear in the Chuvash Culture
Abstract
The work is devoted to the study of the image of the bear in the Chuvash linguistic culture and aims to study its properties in the perception of the Chuvash people in a broad ethnographic aspect, including linguistic (etymological, onomastic), as well as folklore approaches. The material of the study was the texts of oral folk art and ethnographic developments containing information about bears. The author also refers to thematic developments in the field of Finno-Ugric studies, since the Finno-Ugric peoples are representatives of the forest culture, which invariably implies a significant participation of bears in their lives. The study is based on traditional methods: scientific understanding of oral folk art and analysis of ethnographic literature. The bear is a popular character in Chuvash folklore. At the same time, it does not have an unambiguous assessment in the Chuvash culture: the bear is an ingenuous creature, as a result of which it loses to a cunning person. At the same time, the Chuvash recognize the bear as a symbol of strength. Analogues in the perception of the bear are more likely to be traced in Russian linguistic culture than in the cultures of the Volga-Kama peoples, many of whom, primarily the Finno-Ugric peoples, recognize the bear as a totem animal. A number of Chuvash texts about bears are nomadic plots.
www.researchgate.net/publication/367070039_The_Image_of_a_Bear_in_the_Chuvash_Culture
Chuvash people
The Chuvash people (UK: /ˈtʃuːvɑːʃ/ CHOO-vahsh,[15] US: /tʃʊˈvɑːʃ/ chuu-VAHSH;[16] Chuvash: чӑваш [tɕəˈʋaʃ]; Russian: чуваши [tɕʊˈvaʂɨ]) are a Turkic ethnic group, a branch of Oghurs, native to an area stretching from the Volga-Ural region to Siberia. Most of them live in Chuvashia and the surrounding areas, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout the Russian Federation. They speak Chuvash, a unique Turkic language that diverged from other languages in the family more than a millennium ago.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvash_people
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