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Re: "Beary" names
Thank you for this information.
Also, now I remember that poet Virgil liked defining himself as a bear mother, because it refines the fetus before making it born. Virgil's fetus were its writings.You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. ~Marie Curie
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Several animals such as bears were also what we would now term "totemic". Bears in most of Europe would have been the king of the beasts, and were used poetically as a metaphor for "warrior"
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Thank you too.
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