20/03/2017 · Iomante, known as the Bear Sendoff (kumaokuri) or Bear Festival (kumamatsuri) in Japanese, is the spiritual release of a captive bear’s spirit. The animal was often raised from a cub and sacrificed in a way that would be considered inhumane by today’s standards. To the Ainu, bears were sacred animals.

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The most important Ainu rite was the “iyomante”, or the bear sending ritual. Conducted in the spring, it was essentially a funeral ritual for the most important Ainu deity and was intended to give the bear and mountain god spirit a proper send off before it returned to the mountains. A female bear and her cubs were caught.

12/02/2017 · In one moment of the scary cult rite, the young Ainu men will come forward and start deal with the bear, seize the brute by the ears and fur of the face, pulling at the animal that opens its mouth and they stick the piece of wood into the poor bear’s jaws. It is more than morbid to imagine what they do to the bear in long period before they finally do not end up its suffering …

25/03/2016 · Bears and other animals are held in such high esteem that the Ainu believe that when the gods decide to visit earth, they disguise themselves in the flesh and fur of the animal. Hence, they willingly and thankfully accept the bear as a …

Some account of this ritual is sometimes depicted as follows: the ritual is performed to kill bears as a scapegoat that is offered to something, but this is not how the Ainu view the ritual at all. Ritual for welcoming salmon