The Bear: Around The Teddy Bear

The bear is indeed present in many mythological or folk stories remarkable for their

many similarities, since they often take the stage with young women with whom he falls in love and it takes sometimes for their have children with a superhuman strength.

His raw power and his insatiable sexual appetite are highlighted, and its anthropomorphism, to make a sort of wild man and initiator of the fertilizing union. Many popular beliefs associated with it: thus, in the Middle Ages, the female was expected to lick its length and small who were born prematurely drafted to revive them and give them shape, and it was long thought that these animals survived the hibernation, licking paws. Symbol of Switzerland, Finland, Russia or California, the Bears gave his name to numerous places such as Bern and two constellations, and inspired proverbs and popular expressions.

In modern times, the bear is mostly associated with children around the teddy bear, became one of the most popular toys of all time. Thus emerged the "cute bear" who comfort the children, especially in films and animated series, as well as confectionery shaped bear. The link between the bear and the child is purely emotional and emotional, and the animal familiarly known as "Teddy" or "Teddy Bear".

The prehistoric period "Is That of a prehistoric man close Between Cohabitation and several species of bears. Michel Pastoureau Think That "men and societies prononcer haunted by the memory, more or less conscious of contention with ancient times Which THEY bear the Sami and the Sami spaces prey, the Sami and the Sami Fears cellars Sometimes the dreams and Sami Sami layers ".

The oldest known traces of possible association between bears and human culture is in the cave Regourdou, Perigord and near Lascaux, which was found in 1965 a human burial dated to 80,000 years BCE and that of a brown bear in the same slab . The cave was then seen by prehistorians as "a sanctuary for solving the problem of the cult of the bear," and in a thesis by Christian Bernadac, this animal could be "first god celebrated by men" . In the Upper Paleolithic, about 30,000 years ago, evidence of a symbolic association with the bear's rights are stronger, including the Chauvet cave in the Ardeche, where the skulls of bears probably be willing voluntarily ritual way were found . The consumption of bear meat also seems to have been common.

A recent thesis has reported nearly 200 bears in prehistoric art, mainly attributed to the Magdalenian period. It seems impossible to distinguish representations of cave bears from those of brown bears through their mere representation, rather obeying the wishes of exaggeration or simplification of forms to a strict naturalistic reproduction.

by: Barbara Herbert

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