Otso

In Finnish mythology Otso, the king of the forest or honeypaws is one of the many rarely uttered circumlocutory epithets for the spirit that was never directly named. Generally the spirit of the bear was referred to as friend or ways were thought up that would bypass the need to refer to the spirit at all, even indirectly.

Some sub-traditions considered the bear to be a relative who had fled the community and been transmogrified by the power of the forest.