Why have bears played important roles in many cultures?
because germans are like sand and get everywhere
>>843103
Because killing a bear could mean life or death in places where fat for calories and fur for warmth is important. Their prestige laid in those things and the predatory status that made them aggressive adversaries later augmented by their rarity.
>>843114
So, basically, you're saying bears are awesome?
>>843114
This and culturally speaking the bear exemplified strength, which was an esteemed quality in the world views of people to whom it mattered so much in everyday life. They were the elusive embodiments of physical prowess, the kings of the forest. Obviously fear also played a huge part in their veneration.
>>843120
That's cute
>>843120
Bears are awesome. See wikipedia for Karhunpeijaiset.
Even though they have varied, mostly omnivorous diets, and do a lot of scavenging, they are superpredators, and all manner of land-living superpredators and megafauna have been featured in heraldry, myths, folklore, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-V556S_HUA
>>843120
Personally I hate bears because they always leave a fucking mess here.
Imagine a raccoon that could kill you but really just wants to eat those fries you threw away, the dog food outside and your dog.
>>843127
Eh, the forest in western European folk lore was generally perceived as dangerous or atleast unsettling only becoming a place of beauty and grandeur after most of it was chopped down it seems.
>>843160
>he doesn't like bears
>>843173
People not around them think the are majestic
Dude they literally are raccoon 3 year old human toddler litterbugs than can kill you
>>843103
their big
>>843204
>>843204
>>843103
Because of the numerous bear leaders that played developmental roles in the politics and religion of numerous European countries
>>843207
UUUU
>>843448
Funny thing about pandas: a testament to their rarity is the fact that throughout Imperial Chinese history, there is yet to be found a depiction of them in art. Chinese Artists seem have not a single painting of a Panda. Despite the fact that they know it's around there, and the Emperor had given some Pandas as diplomatic gifts (notably the T'ang Emperors to the Yamato Emperor.)
Like it was almost mythical until the Chinese population exploded due to modernity and people started living near their homes.
>>843432
This, it's well-known that bears created the Novgorod Republic, these days known as Russia and formerly known as Rus, whereas the name Rus was taken from the fact that the country was a "ruse" considering non-humans weren't expected to develop nationstates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKePL7vWhw
This is what happens when you don't respect Bear.
>>843506
that's plain wrong. the name "rus" derives from shifting the letters of the word "urs" which means bear in latin.
>>843103
We Bare Bears.
>>843527
Really? Looks like someone rused me then.
>>843519
Live in bear's backyard.
Leave stuff out.
>>843545
Also came from Rosh, the ancient scythians who settled there, iirc. imnrc.
>>843204
In the wild away from humans, they are majestic.
>>843432
Pretty much this. Henry VIII was widely known to be bear, along with Pope Julius II and Joan of Arc. Martin Luther's ursine ancestry was known only to his closest friends, whereas the fact that Charles V was a bear was secret to all until one day at a banquet a nobleman stood up and shouted, "HEY THAT GUYS NOT A GUY HE'S JUST A BEAR"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_f0buRi2c
Lions and eagles are more prominent. Especially the fucking eagles.
>>843103
If you have ever been in the same space with a grizzly bear, you would get it.
>>843867
awww
DA BURRS
>>843867
Hold me brehs
>>843549
Short for Roshan, the ancient creature who stole the aegis of immortals and was cursed to be stolen from for all eternity.
>>843778
This is ridiculous. How could Martin Luther be ursine if he was against usury?
Cause bears are big, strong, dangerous and fucking rad.
dude, it's a fucking bear. BEAR.
it won superb owl too
>>843204
>he doesn't wrestle bears
cuck
THE FIRST RECORDED USE OF THE TERM "GRIZZLY BEAR" IS FROM THE YEAR ONETHOUSAND EIGHTHUNDRED SIX (1806).
THE "HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE" DISINTEGRATED IN THE YEAR ONETHOUSAND EIGHTHUNDRED SIX (1806).
THE GRIZZLY BEAR (URSUS ARCTOS) ENDED THE "HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE", AND THE END OF THE "HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE" ORIGINATED THE GRIZZLY BEAR.
Was Teddy Roosevelt a bear?
These are the bears we have here. A couple of dogs could take them.
>>843103
Because bears are symbols for the power of nature that humankind can't control.
>>843867
If he did this a 1000 years ago, Kings would pay a mighty gift in silver to be around there.
Or kill him and skin them all. People are assholes
>>846386
Russia and china look comfy af
The largest of the now extinct African black bears, Alberto Bearbosa, is known to have been the father of Narmer, the first Egyptian pharaoh.
>>847470
hahaha epic
>>843120
why he crying though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM
>>846346
Just bodyslam it bruv
>>846441
i like you, tripfriend
>>846525
Thats a squatch breh
>>844439
/sp/ represent
>>846386
God knows what the symbolism of those animals is in China
>>849609
It's a Japanese Cartoon.
>China: A fat pig who is wealthy but does nothing with its wealth but speculate (hence magnifying glass). A once great empire past its prime.
>Russia: A big, scary looking bear that just looks scary, but is dumb and stupid, sheepishly turning away from Manchuria/Japan to face Germany.
>Germany: A warlike boar that is agitating europe and beset by threats (arrows) sticking on it from all sides.
>USA: an opportunistic badger with a gun and a telescope, ensuring that it's Asian Possession (the Philippines) is safe from Japanese threat.
>Africa: a made up patchwork of Europe's dirty laundry.
https://blog.richmond.edu/livesofmaps/2014/10/21/map-of-the-weeka-world-in-a-color-book/
>>846386
>gibraltal
>japan see
>corea
>mediterranean sen
>austriahungaby
>funland
>amep ica is australia
>rusia
>the graet european war
i could go on like this forever.
