[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v2.c14.4.7 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.4.7 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.4.7 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c14.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.4.7) The appeasing of the captured bear here referred to seems, however, to fit in first of all with the bear-worship of the Aino, the Gilyaks and other Amur peoples, which finds its highest expression in the famous bear-festival of the Aino and the Gilyaks. Of this festival among the last-named people, and what is connected with it Leo Sternberg has given a very good account in his excellent article on the religion of the Gilyaks, \*Zeitschr. f. Relgnswiss.\*, Bd. 8, p. 260 ff.; see especially 272 there. The bear-cult of the Aino and a long set of details belonging to it, as also the ideas lying behind it are treated at length by Frazer, \*Golden Bough\* 2, 1900, Bd. ii, 374 ff. - [Previous: v2.c14.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.4.6) - [Next: v2.c14.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.5) - [Up: v2.c14.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.4.7) · Pramāṇa