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I have the following sentence:

> 熊の神 **と** はどのようなものか、想像してみたが...

My book translates this as

> I tried to imagine what the Bear God might be like.

I have multiple problems:

1) I think どのような means "what kind of" so would I be correct in saying that a
more literal (not better) translation would be " I tried to imagine what kind
of thing the bear god is"?

2) What is the purpose of the と after 熊の神?

3) Why is there no と before 想像する? Would it be okay to add one?
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grammar particle-と
どのような and a particle soup
1) Yes.

2) It defines the thing being talked about. In this case it is `熊の神`. See some
previous answers: [Purpose of ～とは in
「あなたにとって仕事とはなんでしょうか」](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/19310/purpose-
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3) I think it would be okay to have a と. I'm not very certain about this one
though.
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