This is your occasional reminder that the 'bear taboo' is not actually a Proto-Indo-European understanding. The archaic Indo-Europeans of the Urheimat do not appear to have had a problem referring to a Bear quite directly - as *h₂ŕ̥tḱos. We can tell this because there's a suite of directly cognate terms for 'Bear' in not only … Continue reading On The Purported ‘Bear Taboo’