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Index
Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Bear Shamans and Plant Healers
Understanding the Nature of Animals
Animal Allies
The Plant Healers’ Teacher
The Bear Spirit Posture
Chapter 2: Bear Caves and Neanderthals
An Enigmatic Woman
Stone Age Hunters and Bear Shamans
Chapter 3: Bear Ancestors
Osborn (AsbjO/rn), the Divine Bear
Bear Children
Golden Bears
Chapter 4: Forest Maidens and Feral Mountain People
Glutton and Gourmet
Bear Love and Matriarchy
Chapter 5: Meeting up with Maheonhovan
A Bear Is Not a Tail-Tucking Dog
Shining Light in the Bear’s Soul
Chapter 6: Grandmothers’ Stories
Chapter 7: The Cave, the Bear, and the Woman
The Strength of Those Raised on Bear’s Milk
A Bear-Like Mother Hulda, or Mother Goose
Chapter 8: The Vital Spirit of the Vegetation
Bloody Sacrifices
“Straw-Bear” and “Pea-Bear”
Chapter 9: The Bear King of the Celts
The Wheel with Eight Spokes
The Festival of Light
May Joy and August Fires
Modraniht (Mother’s Night)
Chapter 10: The Guardian of the Treasures
The Croesus of the Animal Realm
Krishna Humbles the Bear King
Zalmoxis and Immortality
Master of Fire
Chapter 11: Berserkers and Guardians of the Threshold
Chapter 12: The Heavenly Trail of Ursa Major
The Power That Moves the Heavens
The Guest from the Twelfth Heaven
The Forbidden Name
Artemis’s Children
The Once and Future King
Chapter 13: The Warrior Bear
Berserkers and Ulfhedinn
Fylgia, the Follower Spirit
The War of the Animals
The Chieftain of the Animals
Chapter 14: Bear Saints and Devils
The Messenger of the Age of Pisces
The Bear as a Porter and Plowman
The Bear Goddess in Nun’s Attire
Forest Demons and Malicious Wild Animals
Brother Klaus’s Bear of Light
Chapter 15: Bear Plants, Bear Medicine
Plants That Induce Sleep
A Master of Botany
Bear’s Garlic, Bear Leek, or Ramsons
Clubmoss
Bearberry
Burdock
Bear’s Milk, Licorice, and Hogweed
Chapter 16: Bear Fat and Bear Gall
The Bear’s Charisma
The Cure-All
Bear Fat
Amber
Chapter 17: Rituals of Departure: Reconciliation with the Bear Spirit
Chapter 18: Places of Bear Power
Smokey Bear and Yellowstone
Salmon Gourmets on the McNeil River
A Guest from Heaven
Visiting the King of the Forest
Chapter 19: Bear-opolis—Berne (City of Bears), Switzerland
Bears Who Have Become Human
Duke Berchtold and Noble Lady Mechthildis
The Patron Saint
Chapter 20: Teddy Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh
The Dumb Bear
The President and the First Teddy Bear
The Wise Bear of Little Understanding
Chapter 21: Encyclopedia of Famous Bears
Aloysius
Baloo
Barnaby Bear (Rasmus Klump)
Bart
Ben (Bozo)
The Berliner Bear
The Bernese Bear
Care Bears
Dancing Bears
Ewoks
Fozzie Bear
Gentle Ben
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Gummy Bears
Paddington Bear
The Russian Bear
Smokey Bear
Winnie-the-Pooh
Yogi Bear
Afterword
Endnotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About North Atlantic Books
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