Bear

• Bear is used in Medicine.

  Pliny’s Natural History treats bear among land animals with fat and drug uses. A named bear in that encyclopedia, not ursa-major as the sky figure already walked and not a berserker dump.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Bear is historically related to Wool.

  In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Bear is placed beside Wool as concrete shop companions.

  from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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• Bear is historically related to Oil.

  In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Bear and Oil are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

  from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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Hellenic religion

• Bear appears in Hellenic religion.

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 2 turns Callisto into a bear after Juno’s wrath, before the sky-lift. A named bear metamorphosis in that poem, not Pliny pharmacy alone and not a constellation Ursa flatten as the only claim.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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Northwest Coast tradition

• Bear appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

  Swanton’s Tlingit collection seats bears among animals of hunt, story, and transformation speech on that coast. A named bear in that ethnography, not ursa-major as a sky figure and not Pliny pharmacy alone.

  from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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