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The Ainu creation myth shows similarity to Indo-European & Uralic.

According to folklore, the first being, or the first Kamuy, created the world. The ancestor of man is sometimes said to be a bear, similar to how *Yemo- (Norse "Ymir", Rigvedic "Yama") in the Indo-European creation myth, is a giant.

In Finnish mythology, the bear (Finnish "karhu") was seen as the embodiment of the forefathers, whom they knew by epithets such as mesikämmen, "mead-paw". And in the Indo-European linguistic tradition, bears were revered which can be inferred by the practice of substituting the original word for the beast, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with epithets such as *berô (Germanic, "the brown one") and *medvě̀dь (Slavic, "honey-eater").

These tentatively inferred similarities may suggest a very ancient relation.

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Comparative Religion..

The Ainu creation myth shows similarity to Indo-European & Uralic.

According to folklore, the first being, or the first Kamuy, created the world. The ancestor of man is sometimes said to be a bear, similar to how *Yemo- (Norse "Ymir", Rigvedic "Yama") in the Indo-European creation myth, is a giant.

In Finnish mythology, the bear (Finnish "karhu") was seen as the embodiment of the forefathers, whom they knew by epithets such as mesikämmen, "mead-paw". And in the Indo-European linguistic tradition, bears were revered which can be inferred by the practice of substituting the original word for the beast, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with epithets such as *berô (Germanic, "the brown one") and *medvě̀dь (Slavic, "honey-eater").

These tentatively inferred similarities may suggest a very ancient relation.

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