Worship Kim-un-kamuy as our Patron God

Kim-un-kamuy, ‘god of the mountains’, also called Metotush Kamuy and Nuparikor Kamuy, is the Ainu god of bears and mountains. Bears are generally regarded as benevolent.

Every village that could afford it kept a captured bear cub for a year, then shot it with arrows in a bear ceremony. Its flesh was eaten to free its spirit to return to the heavens, where it told Kim-un-kamuy of the humans’ piety.