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Lāčplēsis, meaning "Bear-slayer", is a Latvian legendary hero who is said to have killed a bear by ripping its jaws apart with his bare hands. However, as revealed in the end of the long epic describing his life, Lāčplēsis' own mother had been a she-bear, and his superhuman strength resided in his bear ears.
However, the number of eagle totem members grew when new members whose paternal ancestors were Americans were assigned to this totem. Since the first sustained contact by the Anishinaabe with the United States was through government officials, the symbol of the American eagle was taken for a clan marker. Members of the Eagle clan include:
The Ainu Iomante ceremony (bear sending). Japanese scroll painting, circa 1870. Bear worship is the religious practice of the worshipping of bears found in many North Eurasian ethnic religions such as among the Sami, Nivkh, Ainu, [1] Basques, [2] Germanic peoples, Slavs and Finns. [3]
On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you've got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state.
The sequence of characters and symbols sculpted into a totem pole is indicative of past family events, ancestors, myths, and heraldic crests, with the bottom figure usually being the most prominent. [23] The interpretation of the symbols is retold in a semi-legendary form when the pole is first dedicated to a certain house after completion.
Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [33] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [34] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [35] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [35] Asian arowana (national fish) Scleropages formosus [35] Italy: Italian wolf ...
The seal shows Athena in Greek mythology (alternately Minerva in Roman mythology), the goddess of wisdom and war, because she was born an adult, and California was never a territory; a California grizzly bear, the official state animal, feeding on grape vines, representing California's wine production; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture ...
A demi bear appears in the crest of Lawson in Canada. [7] A grizzly bear, with wings, appears as a supporter in the bearings of Norris, also in Canada. [8] Canada has armigers with polar bears in their bearings. [9] Chimerical half-bear, half-ravens appear as supporters of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.