bear

animal_ally forest Ket people triangulated · 5

A bear spirit that serves as a helper animal for Ket shamans.

↻ synthesized from 5 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
The cult of Artemis at Brauron involved rituals where young girls 'played the bear'.

Relationships

serves
Chingichngish
manifested by
Ya-o-gah, Kallisto

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Sources

Source passages

“associated animal (deer, bear)”

#82 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“the plague if they compelled their virgins to play the bear, as blood price for the death of the animal.”

#19697 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001