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Tradizioni dell’orso tra i Nativi nord-americani

Accademia University Press eBooks 2015 Enrico Comba 1 citation

In the Native American world, the bear appears as the most appropriate animal for acting as instructor and helper during the process which an individual has to undergo in order to become a shaman. Many hunting peoples regarded the bear as the shaman of the animal world. Furthermore, bear’s descent into the bowels of the earth, every fall, to spend its period of hibernation, was regarded as a...