The Bear at the Festival of Reconciliation with Nature

Zakhar Stepanovich Yaganov tells that he bear feast is celebrated separately from the snow sheep feast and the seal feast, which is taking place right now [October]. The bear feast is held in December or mid-November, so it was held late. Today, it is celebrated whenever it happens to fall. […]

With songs and dances, the movements of the bear are imitated, such as the clapping of his paws, while various bear dancers pull the sacred tree for the festival into the house.