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The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends from the Slavic East to Celtic Britain.…
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This is a scholarly account of the history of the Bear as a cultural and religious symbol. Pastoureau is a distinguished French historian who specializes in the history of colors and in the symbolism of animals. Here, he begins with the story of the bear as the most ferocious, most feared, most revered animal in antiquity, and not coincidentally the animal that most resembled a human. From ancient Greece to medieval Europe he finds evidence of bear "cults" and of the pervasive symbolism of the bear's power (the name "Arthur," as in King Arthur, comes from an old word for…
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