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In Finland, the brown bear, which is also nicknamed as the "king of the forest" by the Finns, [28] [29] is even so common that it is the country's official national mammal, [30] and occur on the coat of arms of the Satakunta region is a crown-headed black bear carrying a sword, [31] possibly referring to the regional capital city of Pori, whose ...
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In 1904, a Viking Age statuette identified as a depiction of Freyr was discovered on the farm Rällinge in Lunda, Södermanland parish in the province of Södermanland, Sweden. The depiction features a cross-legged seated, bearded male with an erect penis. He is wearing a pointed cap or helmet and stroking his triangular beard.
God the Father on a throne, with the Virgin Mary and Jesus, Westphalia, Germany, late 15th century. The Second Council of Nicaea in 787 effectively ended the first period of Byzantine iconoclasm and restored the honouring of icons and holy images in general. [13] However, this did not immediately translate into large scale depictions of God the ...
The Kayans have a hawk god, Laki Neho, but seem to regard the hawk as the servant of the chief god, Laki Tenangan. Singalang Burong , the hawk-god of the Dyaks, is completely anthropomorphized. He is the god of omens and ruler of the omen birds, but the hawk is not his messenger for he never leaves his house.
Reconstructed cave bear. A popular myth about prehistoric religion is bear worship. Early scholars of prehistory, finding skeletons of the extinct cave bear around Paleolithic habitats, drew the conclusion humans of the era worshipped or otherwise venerated the bears. The concept was pioneered by excavations in the late 1910s in Switzerland ...
According to reconstruction by some researchers, he is the opponent of the supreme thunder god Perun. [2]: 211–214 As such he probably has been imagined as a dragon, which in the belief of the pagan Slavs is a chimeric being resembling a cross between a bear and a snake that devours livestock.