Bear Cult

[boredpanda]

15+ Un-Bear-Ably Cute Momma Bears Teaching Their Teddy Bears How To Bear

[stayshreddedmyfriends]

Momma Bear

[arctolatry]

                                       copper bear mother dream                      faces peer from the metallic textures that surround her.                               https://www.facebook.com/Gendermorph

[thebestoftumbling]

grizzly bear having a swim

[bananashemmo]

I’ve been laughing for ten minutes straight

[dlubes]

Bears are so weird I always forget they exist. They’re like dog humans

[lustik]

[ellethargic-deactivated20160724]

Is that paper is that fucking paper

[bloomingjazmine]

Reblogging again because what

[kultalintu]

„Atta Troll. Ein Sommernachtstraum“ is an epic poem by Heinrich Heine, written in 1841 and published in 1843 in the journal „Zeitung für die elegante Welt“. It was never completed. Illustrations by Willy Pogány (from the 1913 edition by Sidgwick & Jackson, London).

Atta Troll is a dancing bear who escapes captivity and returns to his den in the Pyrenees. Plagued by longing for his still captive wife Mumma, Atta Troll speaks to his six cubs about the guile and evil of mankind and the servitude of animals. Atta Troll plans a revolution: to abolish the rule of foul profit and to found a “just animal kingdom” (”Ein gerechtes Animalreich”). Heine uses the bear character to mock both conservative and progressive, authoritarian and liberal ideas. Atta Troll believes in a creator deity in the shape of a colossal polar bear, but also preaches that property is theft. Atta’s cubs parody German nationalism. To his mother, Heine wrote that Atta Troll was a “satire on ideas of liberalism in general” (source).

Auf Deutsch // In English

[zeezrom]

Willy Pogány

[kultalintu]

Snow White and Rose Red

[discardingimages]

tiny bear among the flowers

Hugues de Lannoy, Imaginacion de vraye noblesse, Bruges 1496

BL, Royal 19 C VIII, fol. 1r

[pinkjetpack-blog]

Martti A. Mykkänen signet for illustrated magazine Unsikivalehti, Finland. Blogged at Aqua-Velvet.

[arctolatry]

Probably Uusi Kuvalehti?

[arctolatry]

The bear and the madroño tree. Coat of arms of the city of Madrid, Spain.

[arctolatry]

Wappen der Stadt St. Gallen, Schweiz.Aufrecht schreitender Bär auf silbernem Schild, die Vorderpranken nach heraldisch rechts erhoben, mit goldenem Halsband, goldener Bewehrung (Klauen, Zähne, Ohrmuscheln, Augenbrauen), mit roter Zunge und rotem Geschlechtszeichen. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahnen_und_Wappen_von_Stadt_und_F%C3%BCrstabtei_St._Gallen

[chingizhobbes]

The Coat of Arms of Zheleznogorsk, Siberia. No, seriously. It’s a bear… TEARING APART A NUCLEUS. SCIENCE!!!

[arctolatry]

Miniature of Reverend Father Seraphim of Sarov and bear, early 20th century. Found in the wonderful Wikimedia Commons category "People with bear in art". Преподобный Серафим Саровский, кормящий медведя. Начало 20 века. Ростов Великий.

[arctolatry]

Mikhail Nesterov. Youth of Reverend Father Saint Sergius, 1892-1897

М. В. Нестеров. Молодежи преподобный отец Сергий, 1892-1897

[arctolatry]

Saint Sergius (Employees) Artist: Nicholas Roerich Completion Date: 1940 Style: Symbolism Genre: religious painting Technique: tempera Material: canvas Dimensions: 60.9 x 122 cm Gallery: Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Neolithic amber bear, dated between 1700 B.C. and 650 B.C.

[selchieproductions]

I want someone to make me a replica of this.

[nitaohoyo]

i concur. 

[zomganthro]

Amazing zoomorphic carvings from the Ipiutak site, near Port Hope, Alaska.

Images from: Ipiutak and the Whale Hunting Culture, Larson & Rainy 1948 (Monograph)

[iloveoldmagazines]

Life

1968 Vol. 65, No. 10