The Image of a Bear in the Chuvash Culture

The work is devoted to the study of image bear in Chuvash linguistic culture and aims its properties perception people a broad ethnographic aspect, including (etymological, onomastic), as well folklore approaches. material was texts oral folk art developments containing information about bears. author also refers thematic field Finno-Ugric studies, since peoples are representatives forest culture, which invariably implies significant participation bears their lives. based on traditional methods: scientific understanding analysis literature. popular character folklore. At same time, it does not have an unambiguous assessment culture: ingenuous creature, result loses cunning person. recognize symbol strength. Analogues more likely be traced Russian than cultures Volga-Kama peoples, many whom, primarily totem animal. A number nomadic plots.