Bear carved out of amber (forbidden gummy), prehistoric Poland, 5000 BCE-2000 BCE
Bear carved out of amber (forbidden gummy), prehistoric Poland, 5000 BCE-2000 BCE
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And it was still chewy.
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Cute
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Prehistoric poland? They really did survive everything!
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Ancient person who carved this: "It's too bad this is just a mock up of my actual dream. One day, these little bears will be full of delicious honey. Mmmm.... 🤤"
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It really does look like a cute or friendly bear. But humans must have been weary of them.
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Fun fact: the word "bear" actually originates from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "the brown one", not bear.
Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European and many Indian languages originated from, did have a word for bear, but it only survived in a few languages because they believed that if you said the real name of the bear, it would summon a bear. To prevent this, they made up euphemistic names like "the brown one" and "the honey eater"
So remember, every time you say "bear", you're actually saying a several thousand year old euphemism and I think that's really cool
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Forbidden gummy bear.