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Index
Please note that index links to approximate location of each term.
A
Abenaki, in Maine, 100
“About the Origin of Disease” (story), 155–157
The Adventures of Frontier Freemont (film), 261
Advertising Council, 272
Age of Atlantis, 24
Age of Pisces, messenger of, 160
Ainu, 40, 42, 191, 219–222, 223, 228, 238
Alaska McNeil State Game Sanctuary, 216
Alaskan Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorfii), 34
Alcor, star, 132
Alemannic Fasnet (carnival), 148
Alemannic tribes, 147–148, 159, 160
Algonquian tribes, 132
Aloysius, 258
Alpine lovage (Mountain lovage), 185
Algonquians, tale from, 14–18
Altai-Turk legend, 43
Amber, 198, 198p
Amber gall, 195
American antelope, 70p
Ancestors, connecting to, 66
Andean bears, 32, 33
Andes, Quechua people in, 10
Animal(s)
allies, 7–11
bear as forest animal, 10
behavior of, 4, 215
benefits of, 1–2
chieftain of, 153–157, 154p
including the bear, 101p
origin of the word, 3
realm, Croesus of, 109–111
soul, 2, 3, 149–150
spirit, 3, 6, 9
teacher, shamans power and, 12
understanding nature of, 2–7
the war of, 151–153, 151p, 152p, 153p
Ani-Tsaguhi (Ahnee-Jah-goo-hee), 43– 44
Arcadian people, 45, 48
Arcturus, 99, 100, 131, 139, 140p
Arkas (the bear), 139
Artemis, 136–140, 138p, 165–166
Asiatic black bear (Ursus tibetanus), 35
Assiniboine, 72
Atalante (Arcadian King’s daughter), 77
Atema, Jelle, 26
Auel, Jean M., 244
August fires, 96–99
B
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 129
Baechler, Emil, 29
Baldmoney. see Bear wort
Baloo, 258–259, 259p
The Bare Necessities (Song), 259
Baribal bear, 34
Barnaby bear (Rasmus Klump), 260, 260p
Bart, 261
Bauer, Wolfgang, 243
Bear, John, 76, 78–79
Bearberry, 182–183, 183p
Bear biotopes, 31
Bear caves
Paleolithic, in eastern Switzerland, 28p
in the Pyrenees or Alps, 37–38
in Saentis Mountain, 22–24
in Slovenia, 26
Ursus spelaeus, 32-33, 33p
Bear fat, 195–198, 197p
The Bear (film), 261
Bear gall, 193–195
Bear goddess. see Artemis
Bear Goddess in nun’s attire, 165–167
“Bear herbs, the strongest healing plants” (lecture), 276
Bear-opolis, Berne (Switzerland), 229–241
Bear position, 19
Bear(s). see also Bear caves; Brown bear; Bruin; Grizzly bear; Story(ies); White bear
bear mother with cubs, 59p
Carlo about, 22
children, 42–44
clan, 61
expressions of, 37
of the fasting time (Lent), 89p
with fish in its mouth, 82p
during hibernation, 100
honoring of, 14–18, 23, 30, 32
hope for bear’s return, 275–278
kills the wicked dwarf, 109p
kinds and selection of, 32–38, 258–273
as master of botany, 177–180, 179p
in monk’s cloak, 167p
as mount for demon, 168p
nicknames of, 31
as objects of fantasy, 52p
parading captured bear in Valais, 171p
as porter and plowman, 162–165
saints and devils, 159–173
skeleton of, 10p, 53p
sole of a bear’s foot, 53p
spirit posture, 18–19, 19p
as symbols, 56p, 244
tracks, 124p
Bearskin (Baerenhaeuter), 145
Bearskin (fairy tale), 65–66
Bear Tribe Medicine Company, 275, 276p
Bear wort, 184
Bees and honey, 96
Bégouen, Comte, 226
Behavior, of animals, 4, 215
Ben (Bozo), 261–262
Berchtold’s Day, 234
Berige, 142
Berlin, 263
Berlin bear, 231
Berliner bear, 263–264
Berlin’s coat of arms, 263, 263p
Berlin seal from 1460, 264p
Bernese, 237, 239
Bernese Alpine bears, 234
Bernese bear, 231, 240, 263, 264
Bernese coin, “Der Batzen,” 110
Bernese Fasnacht, 240, 241p
Bernese flag, 148p, 230p
Bernese “Mutz” (Bruin), greetings from, 209–210
Berne (Switzerland), 22, 76–77, 110, 148, 198, 229–241, 232p
Bero (bear), 147
Berserkers, 144–149, 144p, 191
Big Bear, 99. see also Ursa Major
Big Black Bear (Baribal), 267
Big Dipper. see Ursa Major
Big Horn Mountains, 68
Birgit, Celtics and, 95
Bittrich, Dietmar, 269
Black bear, 32, 34, 54, 58, 63, 63p
Blonde Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus), 34
Blood of bears, 191
Bloody sacrifices, 84–86
Bodwar Bjarki (Bodwar Little Bear), 150
Bone altar in the Dragon’s Den, Glarner Alps, 29–30, 29p
Boone, Daniel, 149
Bozo. see Ben (Bozo)
Brauronia “bears,” 137
Breitschaedel (broad skull), 277
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 258
Bronze Age, cave painting in, 41p
Bronze plate from Torslunda, Sweden, 145p
Brother Klaus’s Bear of light, 171–173
Brown bear, 34, 34p, 229. see also Bruin
Bruin, 62
according to legend, 95
after winter hibernation, 54
brown in Dutch, 31
humans and, 53, 53p
Lapland tale about, 110–111
sleep-inducing herbs and, 176
Buffalo shaman, 9
Burdock, 183–184
C
California, Northern, 44–45, 48–49
California state flag, 48p
Candlemas Day,
94–95
Canton of Waadt, hunting down a bear in, 238p
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (film), 267
Cardinal points, 94
Care bears, 265
Carlo, Husky, 21–24
Carnival(s)
Alemannic Fasnet, 148
Fasnacht, 240–241
in the Middle Ages, 164
Carpathian Mountains, 188
Castaneda, Carlos, 18, 150
Cave(s)
Dragon’s, 32
in eastern Switzerland, 28
Lady of the Caves, 38–39
of Le Mas d’Azil, in France, 208, 208p
Montespan Cave (Haute-Garonne, France), 226, 227p
oldest human representation in, 30
shamans search for, 37
Trois-Frères Cave (Ariége), 227, 227p
Celtic bear amulet, from Lancashire, 92p
Celtic words, 126
Celts
bear king of, 91–101
November days and, 99–101
Charisma, bear’s, 188–193, 189p, 190p, 192p
Charlemagne, 141
Charles’s Wagon, 141
Cherokee clan, 43
Cheyenne, 61, 64, 67, 135, 143, 202–203
Chippewa story, 76
Christianity, animal alliances during, 9
Christian(s)
believe of, 188
tales, 7
Christmastime
bears during, 100
birth of bear cubs during, 100
festivals of fertility celebration, 87
gingerbread and, 236
Church, contact with bears and, 168
Cinderella tale (Grimms), 6
Circumpolar bear cult, 32
Clubmoss, 181–182
Consul Areobindus, roman ivory carving showing, 218p
Crockett, Davy, 149
D
Dagda (white goddess), 92
Dancing bears, 265, 266p
Danger on the Mountain (film), 267
Das Gummibaerchen Orakel (Bittrich), 269
Dea Artio (bear goddess), 98, 98p
Death, bear as symbol of, 90
Deer, Lame, 12, 154
De La Fontaine, Jean, 104
Densmore, Frances, 12
Der Batzen, Bernese coin, 110
Devil’s Tower, 135
Diet, of bears, 54–56
Divine bear, 40–42
Dog days, 99
Dolgans, the bear for, 207
Donar, 40, 161, 172, 244
Doppelganger, animal, 7
Dr. Faust, 118
Dragon’s Cave, 32
Dragon’s Den (Drachenloch), 23, 28, 29p
Drake, Sir Francis, 44, 45
Druids, 91–92
Duerr, Hans Peter, 207
Duke Berchtold V., of Zaehringen, 234–236, 237
Dumb bear, 245–249
E
Earth goddess
bear and, 10
bear as companion of, 109
as messengers of, 36–37
Eating habits, 54–56
The Edge, 261
Ekkehart (monk), 29
Estonians, 207
Europa, 139
European culture, names connected to animals in, 8
Evenks, Yakut and, 207
Evenks tribe, 42, 43
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (film), 267
Ewoks, 266–267
Exogenous forces, 4
F
Fabled Berig (bear), 142
Fasnacht (carnival) bear, 240–241
Fast Foot, 70, 71
Favreau, Jon, 259
Feast, bear, 203–207
Female bears, 207, 215
Feral man and woman, 165p
Fertility, bears and, 37, 41, 86–90, 94–95, 99, 167, 244
Fertility cult, 84–85
Festival Imbolc, 94
Festival(s). see also Carnival(s)
Alpine winter, 147–148
bear, 203–207, 206p
of Gilyaks, 223, 223p
Iomante (Sending-Away Festival), 220–222, 220p, 222p
of Lights, 94
Lugnasad, 96
of West Coast of North America, 224
Finland, story from, 248–249
Finnish bear idols, from Keralia, 205p
Finns, bear for, 10
Fylgia, the follower spirit, 149–151
Flyte, Sebastian, 258
The Forbidden name, 134–135
Forest bear, 46
Forest demons and malicious wild animals, 167–171
Fox, fooling a bear (story from Lapland), 245, 246p, 247p
Fozzie bear, 267
Frazer, James, 209
French Alps, 76
G
Gailleach (Saint Gall), 160–162, 161p, 164p, 168, 171
Gentle Ben, 267
Gentle Ben (TV series and film), 267
Gentle Giant (film), 267
German fairy tales, 37
Gessner, Conrad, 193, 196
Getae and Datians, 113–115
Gilyaks
during bear festival, 223
in Manchuria, 60
on nature of bears, 224–226
Ginseng, emperor of the plants, 187
Glarner Alps, 29
Glutton and gourmet, 54–56
Godly bear, 41, 51, 182, 184
Golden bear, 44–49, 264
Goldilocks and three bears, 267–268, 268p
Golowin, Sergius, 77, 229
Goodman, Felicitas, 19
The Goose Girl (Grimms), 6
Grain mother, 87p
Grandmother’s stories, 65, 67–74
Grave goods, 26
Great Spirit, 46–47, 132–133
Grizzlies, 55, 185, 212, 217, 262
Grizzly bear
adventures of James Adams and, 262p
dances, 199–200
family, 269
for the Navajo, 40
protecting Native American child, 244
Seton as researcher of, 177
trying to climb Devil’s Tower, 136p
Ursus arctos horribilis, 34
Ursus arctos middendorfii, 34
Grizzly Bear Hideout, 48
Grizzly Mountain (film), 262
Groundhog Day, 94
Gummy bears, 244, 269
Gut, Tierisch, 243
H
Halloween, 99
Hansen, Carla, 260
Hansen, Vilhelm, 260
Harold Fair Hair, 146
Healer position, 19
Healing lore, 193–195
Heft, Helmut, 57
Helvetian mountains, 240
Herodot, 114
Hoff, Benjamin, 254
Hogweed, 184–186, 186p
Honeyeater, John, 76
Hope for the bear’s return, 275–278
Huckleberry Hound Show, 273
Human-animal communities, 4–5
Humans
during Age of Atlantis, 24
bears and, 10, 53, 53p
bears berry paradise and, 56–57
bears following their drives as, 84
bears living with, 217
bears mating and, 58–59
bear songs and, 200–201
bears who have become, 231–234
of Cro-Magnon type, 31
eating habits of bears and, 55
intelligence and memory of bears like, 60
Shasta and, 46
sleep of bears and, 60
as symbol of maternal care, 56p
Hunters, Stone Age, 31–38
Hurispiegel, 240, 241p
I
India
bears in, 111–113
naked ascetic in, 143–144
seven luminous ones, 130–131
Intelligence, of bears, 60
Intuit Angakkok, 6
Iomante (Sending-Away Festival), 220–222, 220p, 222p
Iraqi Kurdistan, 26
; Irish Celts, 94
Ishi, 49
Island of Crete, 165
J
Jambavat (king of the bears), 111–112
Jhankrie, 8
The Jungle Book (Kipling), 244, 258–259
K
Kallisto, 138–140
Kami, 219
Karelian Finns, 207
Kasha Dena, 115–116
Katzopoulos, Linda, 257
Kebara, Israel, 26
Khanty, bear for, 10
Kheladan, as first ancestor, 42–43
Killing a wild man, 166p
King Arthur with Merlin, 93p
King of the forest
meeting up with, 62–64
visiting, 224–228
Kipling, Rudyard, 244, 258, 259
Kirati tribe, 10, 249
Koenig, Karl, 5, 60
Krishna humbles the bear king, 111–113, 113p, 118
Kroeber, Alfred, 48
Kuenzle, Johann, 180, 182
Kwakiutl, bear sacrifices, 224
L
Lady of the Caves, 38–39
La Magdeleine, carved bone from, 207, 207p
Lapland, story from, 245, 247p, 2460
Legend(s)
Altai-Turk, 43
of the arch martyr Thecla, 166
of a bear, 110
on bear as father of humanity, 46–47
of Devils tower, 136p
of female Alpine herder, 185
of the Haida people of British Columbia, 200–201
of Wolf-Dietrich of Berne, 164–165
Le Mas d’Azil cave, in France, 208, 208p
Licorice, 184–186
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (TV series), 261
Life span, of bears, 60
Lion questions the rank of the bear, 151p
Little Bear, Cheyenne woman and, 69–71
L’Ours, Jean de, 76
Love and matriarchy, 58–60, 59p
Lucas, George, 267
Lugnasad, Fire festival, 96
Lycaon (king of Arcadia), 139
M
Maheonhovan the heavenly bear, 61, 64
Mani, 209, 230
Mansi people, 203
Margrave Albrecht I, 263
Master of Fire, 115–116
Mating, 58–59
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 30
Mayer, Norbert J., 117
Mayer, Ragula, 243
May joy, 96–99
McNeil River, salmon gourmets on, 216–217
Mechthildis, Noble Lady, 234–236, 237
Medicine bear, tale of, 14–18
Medviedko, Ivan, 76
Meeting with bears, 66
Memory, of bears, 60
Men of the Wagon, 142
Mephistopheles, 118
Mieschmaa, 240, 241p