#bear worship

[tuherrus]

bride of the bear

bear worship was something practiced before the spread of christianity in finland (and other places as well!) and once a bear was hunted it was important to honor it with a memorial feast and help appease the bear’s soul lest it stay angry at you....some of these feasts included either a bride or a groom to be married to the bear and the skull to be mounted on a tree from where the bear's soul could climb up back to the stars, where bears were believed to originate from ✨

[artemis-potnia-theron]

Artemis + 🐻

"The life cycle of bears and their behaviours and similarities with man were studied in ancient times by Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Pliny. However, archaeological evidence for the image of a bear as mother goes back to the Neolithic period. This Neolithic image portrays the 'notable tenderness of the mother beast for her cub as an image for human mothering.'

Baring and Cashford suggest that the bear is 'probably the oldest sacred animal of all.' These images are linked to the Brauron initiations into womanhood and motherhood, as well as the suggestion that Artemis is a derivative of an ancient bear goddess.

The authors note that the bear is 'the oldest animal hunted for food in the northern hemisphere, and also the oldest animal whose remains have been given a ritual significance.' This complex imagery of the bear as caregiver, but also as a large violent animal, is in many ways an anthropomorphic representation of the goddess herself.

Under her care, young women are protected in the transition from child to adult; however, there is also an animalistic character to this ritual. In order to be transformed from girl to woman, the young girl must shed the uninhibitedness of her childhood and offer it as sacrifice to Artemis.

This is a ritual of 'wildness.' When girls who were coming of age were seen as being especially 'hormonal', they were said to be in the grip of the wild, independent goddess herself. By performing these rituals, it was believed that the goddess would guide the girls to maturity.

During rites of initiation, young girls become the bears of Artemis. One example is the archeological find at Sparta, where an interesting lead figure from the sanctuary of Artemis shows a female dancer wearing a bear mask.

The ancient Greeks saw bears everywhere, especially in the stars, and attributed the characteristics of the mother bear to Artemis, both as the creature and as the stellar constellation of Ursa Major, 'the Great Bear'."

- She Who Hunts: Artemis: The Goddess Who Changed the World by Carla Ionescu

[roidedout]

Worship while you ride

[stuffedmenai]

[ursinho-de-gelatina]

[belly-buffet]

Obsessed with how big & beefy his arms are

[gayarmpits]

Brad Kalvo and Adam Russo (ND, 2018)

[beefysmorgasbord]

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[unapologetic-boy-kisser]

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[bigbearcutiexxx]

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[stuffedmenai]

[ursinho-de-gelatina]

[gayarmpits]

Bruce Hammer and Fox Rifler (The Guy Site, 2022)