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Arctolatry or Bear worship
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Rhiannon asks......

....do you not think this article gives a good argument that there wasn't any bear worship going on? :)

It would imply that yes; there was some form of bear worship going on at some of the sites listed. What it also indicated was the same or similar practices concerning big cats and other large animals.

Did you read the other articles Rhiannon?
They suggest that parts of the bear bodies, the skulls and the leg bones were collected up and given special treatment just as in the long barrow funeral rites.

In the case of Wildkirchli, both the worshiped, the cave bears, and the worshiper, the Neanderthals died out or were exterminated. The examples of Arctolatry given from other parts of the world revolved around entirely different spices of bear and humans.


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Chance
Posted by Chance
14th August 2010ce
12:54

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