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An important myth of Kim-un Kamuy explains this ritual: One day, the bear god is told by the crow that his wife has gone down from the heavens to the village of humans and has not returned. He rushes home, takes his child, and goes to the human village, where he is greeted by Kamuy Paseguru , the hunt goddess, who invites him to visit Kamuy ...
An onikuma (鬼熊, literally "demon bear") is a mythological Japanese yōkai originating in the Kiso Valley in Nagano Prefecture. It is a bear-like creature that has been known to walk upright. They sneak into villages at night to carry off livestock for food.
Japanese folklore features the Onikuma, a "demon bear" that walks upright. [8] The Ainu of northern Japan, as ethnically distinct from the Japanese, saw the bear instead as sacred; Hirasawa Byozan painted a scene in documentary style of a bear sacrifice in an Ainu temple, complete with offerings to the dead animal's spirit. [9]
Bears depicted in mythology Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Bear deities (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category ...
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]
Before its adaptation to the Japanese dream-caretaker myth creature, an early 17th-century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (山海異物), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with the trunk and tusks of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the tail of a cow, the body of a bear and the paws of a tiger, which protected ...
A kamuy (Ainu: カムィ; Japanese: カムイ, romanized: kamui) is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy , passed down through oral traditions and rituals.
Kumanokusubi (熊野久须毘命,熊野櫲樟日命, Wonder Worker of Bear Moors) [1] is a God in Japanese mythology. He is the fifth son of Amaterasu. [1] [2] Some scholars have identified this kami as the saijin at the shrine Kumano Jinja in Shimane Prefecture. [3]