Berserker
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In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were Scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berser
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Bearhooded Germanic warriors on Trajan's Column
Animal headed warriors on the Gallehus horns.
Bear worship
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Bear worship is a form of animal worship and is the religious practice of worshipping bears. Bears are often viewed as ancestors or spiritual messengers by those who practice arctolatry. The practice
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…in the 11th c. Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv. It is proposed by some authors that the berserkers drew their power from the bear and were devoted to the bear cult, which was once widespread across the northern hemisphere. The berserkers maintained their religious observances despite their fighting prowess, as the…
The goddess Artio from the Muri statuette group, a collection of bronze figures of Gallo-Roman found in Muri bei Bern, Switzerland, 1832.
Bear and panther in the Pont d'Arc cave.
Exhibition of remains found at Le Régourdou in France.
Volos (also called Veles) in the background of the Millennium of Russia Monument