There are numerous passages within the novel explaining the alliance between bear and woman, you start with the foundation of our bear face-to-face, created from the counter-nature coupling from a young girl and a bear surviving in a cave outs >
Here’s what i ran across, that ladies have since long abdicated all definitive knowledge, they follow me, light and full of courage, in an obscure world, delighting in my simple presence that they know silence and relegation, that is why. (101–102)