When you think of a "protector," what character is conjured in your brain? Usually, it is a hero from a story we've heard a thousand times: a knight guarding a village, or a damsel being plucked from the path of a dangerous animal by a brave hunter. But there is another figure held deep in the well of our collective memory, one that reaches back to our very beginnings. She is the "Mumma Bear". An archetype that doesn't need a script because she is rooted in a primal, animalistic instinct that exists long before social constructs or patriarchal structures ever had a chance to name her.
When you think of a "protector," what character is conjured in your brain? Usually, it is a hero from a story we've heard a thousand times: a knight guarding a village, or a damsel being plucked from the path of a dangerous animal by a brave hunter. But there is another figure held deep in the well of our collective memory, one that reaches back to our very beginnings. She is the "Mumma Bear". An archetype that doesn't need a script because she is rooted in a primal, animalistic instinct that exists long before social constructs or patriarchal structures ever had a chance to name her.
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