Comments on: The Linguistics of the Yeti http://semantics-online.org/2003/09/the-linguistics-of-the-yeti A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:14:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Prentiss Riddle http://semantics-online.org/2003/09/the-linguistics-of-the-yeti#comment-29 Prentiss Riddle Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:37:04 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2003/09/the-linguistics-of-the-yeti#comment-29 <p>Cool, if true. It also brings to mind an obscure bit of literary and anthropological trivia: poet Gary Snyder, counterculture hero and model for Japhy Rider in Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums", was once upon a time an anthropology student interested in both Japan and the Native American cultures of the Pacific Northwest. He combined these interests in a monograph on what he called the circumpolar bear cult, shamanistic bear worship from northern Europe through northern Asia and into northern North America. Among other assertions, he believed that some common characters in modern Japanese folklore had their roots in an anthropomorphization of bear gods.</p> <p>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22circumpolar+bear+cult%22</p> <p>I wonder whether the Yeti would fit into his theories or is a bear of a different color?</p> Cool, if true. It also brings to mind an obscure bit of literary and anthropological trivia: poet Gary Snyder, counterculture hero and model for Japhy Rider in Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums”, was once upon a time an anthropology student interested in both Japan and the Native American cultures of the Pacific Northwest. He combined these interests in a monograph on what he called the circumpolar bear cult, shamanistic bear worship from northern Europe through northern Asia and into northern North America. Among other assertions, he believed that some common characters in modern Japanese folklore had their roots in an anthropomorphization of bear gods.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22circumpolar+bear+cult%22

I wonder whether the Yeti would fit into his theories or is a bear of a different color?

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