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A quick doodle of a family of bears. Bears are one of my favourite animals and also very fascinating due to how they've influenced human cultures through the ages. For instance: Humans have used kennings and Noa-names for pretty much all animals, in order to not lure them to us when hearing their true name, but in Indo-European circles we've forgotten the true name of the bear and only remember the kennings. That shows how frightened ancient people have been of the bear, that most languages use a word derived from the colour brown. The closest we've gotten to the original name is that from which the Greek "Arktos" and Latin "Ursus" derive, but it is also yet another euphemism that means "Destroyer".

Description
A quick doodle of a family of bears. Bears are one of my favourite animals and also very fascinating due to how they've influenced human cultures through the ages. For instance: Humans have used kennings and Noa-names for pretty much all animals, in order to not lure them to us when hearing their true name, but in Indo-European circles we've forgotten the true name of the bear and only remember the kennings. That shows how frightened ancient people have been of the bear, that most languages use a word derived from the colour brown. The closest we've gotten to the original name is that from which the Greek "Arktos" and Latin "Ursus" derive, but it is also yet another euphemism that means "Destroyer".