How to use Totem in a sentence

He was one of the founders of the study of " Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905).

This tribe may legally marry within the totem, but always avoids such unions.

Among the Caribs a like social order prevailed; indeed, their family system is identical with the totem system of North American Indians.

Each spirit, as it quits its nanja or natural haunt to enter the mother, drops a churinga, a slab of stone or wood marked with the child's totem and containing its spirit attributes.

The warrior painted the story of conflicts on his robe only in part, to help him recount the history of his life; the Eskimo etched the prompters of his legend on ivory; the Tlinkit carved them on his totem post; the women fixed them in pottery, basketry, or blankets.

These rites are common in North America, but are worked by members of gilds or societies, not by totem kins.

All belonged to the same totem or totemic class, and might be scattered throughout the tribe, though subject to the same marriage laws.

The pole displayed the tribal totem at the top.

You can make totem poles from paper towel tubes.

While she'd been one of the original Guardians to escape the immortal world with Damian, she'd also been at the bottom of the totem pole, once the Guardians in the mortal world rallied around their White God.

Bourke, Snake-Dance of the Moquis (1884), p. 180 seq.; see Frazer, Totem.

Robertson Smith considers the sacrifices offered to the wolf-Zeus in Arcadia to have been originally cannibal feasts of a wolf-tribe, who recognized the wolf as their totem.

At that age, he was relatively low on the immortal totem pole, though his obvious wealth indicated he had powerful connections somewhere.

The connection between a man and his totem is mutually beneficent.

The Priests of most have little hierarchy, unless the totem animal is strongly hierarchical such as the wolf.

In front of the building on the extreme left, a 32 ft high Canadian totem pole can be glimpsed through the trees.

Museum Without Walls stands as both totem and architectural model, creating a contemporary primitivism from cultural refuse.

Pass native fishing villages and forested slopes; set foot on ice-age glaciers, visit gold rush settlements and parks of totem poles.

To the offbeat syncopation Snyder is dancing like an indian around a totem pole.

Carve your own piece of a stone beach totem pole - learn how to use stone carving tools using special ' soft blocks ' .

We have a park down town and everyone in the school made a totem poles for it and we made clay tiles.

The god, the victim and the human group are regarded as of the same kin; the animal (totem) is the earlier form of the god; the deity was originally female, for under matrilineal rules the mother alone is of kin to her children, but, with the rise of descent in the male line, the god was transformed into a male.

It is therefore not surprising to find that many peoples on the lower planes of culture respect and even worship animals (see Totem; Animal Worship); though we need not attribute an animistic origin to all the developments, it is clear that the widespread respect paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cult of dangerous animals, is traceable to this principle.

At a higher stage the spirits of dead kinsmen are no longer unfriendly, nor yet all non-human spirits; as fetishes (see Fetishism), naguals (see Totem), familiars, gods or demi-gods (for which and the general question see Demonology), they enter into relations with man.

Pass native fishing villages and forested slopes; set foot on ice-age glaciers, visit Gold Rush settlements and parks of totem poles.

Sleek as a seal, toned and tanned, Giorgio Armani is a walking totem of his own global success.

The priest may use a bonus dice in all attempts to interact with their totem animal.

Once you have parked, follow the totem signs to the Center.

Totem Poles are a characteristic feature of Pacific coast Indian Art.

We celebrate our worship and our guilt in " totem meals ".

Carve your own piece of a stone beach totem pole - learn how to use stone carving tools using special ' soft blocks '.

By achieving your degree, you will be able to rise up the career totem pole and work in the job that best suits you and your skills.

This degree can help you achieve your goals of rising up the career totem pole.

To many Native American cultures, the dragonfly is an animal totem which embodies wisdom, enlightenment and the spirit of change.

Shamanic Chinese masks derive from the tradition of totem worship in early Chinese culture.

The cultures associated with exorcising masks lived south of the Yangtze River and incorporated shamanic rituals and totem worship into their culture.

The series premiere garnered 4.9 million viewers, carrying the CW further up the network television totem pole.

The beliefs he came to know and believe have spurred him on to spend over twenty years of his life transforming himself into his totem animal, a tiger.

As a totem animal, the dolphin is a reminder that play is a crucial part of the balance of life.

If you're considering a new tattoo, the delicate yet powerful hummingbird may be the perfect totem for you.

The projects include such things as totem bags, a beaded journal, necklaces, pins, mandalas, icons and headbands.

This immortal House had been somewhat lowly on the immortal totem pole, evidenced by the fact it was a third the height of most of the others.

This was naturally found in the non-human member of the totem-kin - the totem animal; in a sense, therefore, the god died for his people.

The cult of the serpent is found in many parts of the Old World; it is also not unknown in America; in Australia, on the other hand, though many species of serpent are found, there does not appear to be any species of cult unless we include the Warramunga cult of the mythical Wollunqua totem animal, whom they seek to placate by rites.

The carved totem posts of the Haida, standing in front of the heavily framed houses, or at a little distance from them, represent the coats of arms of the respective families of the tribes and generally exhibit designs treated in a bold and original manner, highly conventionalized but always recognizable in their purport by any one familiar with the distinctive marks of the animal forms portrayed.

All or nearly all of these were at one time totem animals among one or another of the Semitic tribes, and were not eaten because primitive men will not eat animals between which and themselves and their gods they believe a peculiar tie of kinship to exist.

Such abstinences as the above, though based on taboo, that is, on a reluctance to eat the totem or sacred animal, are yet ascetic in so far as they involve much self-denial.

Thus in Australia the initiation ceremonies, concerned as they partly are with marriage, always an affair between the kin-groups, are tribal, whilst the totemic rites are the prime concern of the members of the totem clans.

In place of the goat or fawn a bear might have been expected, but the choice may have been influenced by the animal totem of the tribe into whose hands the ritual fell.

The son of an Australian male, whose kin or totem name is Crane, takes, in many tribes, his mother's kin-name, Swan or Cockatoo, or whatever it may be, and the same is a common rule in Africa and America among races who rarely remember their great-grandfathers.

Among all these tribes religion now takes another line, the belief in a supernormal race of Titanic beings, with no superior, who were the first dwellers on earth; who possessed powers far exceeding those of the medicine-men of to-day; and who, in one way or another, were connected with, or developed from, the totem animals,vegetables and other objects.

Most of the magic is worked (Intichiuma in Arunta) by the members of each totem kin or group for the behoof of the totem as an article of food supply.

His great opponent (for the eternal dualism comes in) is Khanukh, who is a wolf, and the ancestor or totem of the wolf-race of men as Yehl is of the raven.

The Aborigines were divided into clans; each clan had a totem to identify itself by.

Each figure appears with an animal totem at his feet.

Among the Gaelic peoples it was a powerful totem of many tribes.

The electron microscope made this possible by playing the role of a " laboratory totem " for a growing tribe of molecular biologists.

Marillier further argues that if, on the other hand, there was no bond between god and people but that of the common meal, it does not appear that the god is a totem god; there is no reason why the animal should have been a totem; and in any case this idea of sacrifice can hardly have been anything but a slow growth and consequently not the origin of the practice.

All the Baganda belong to one or other of twenty-nine clans, or " Bika, " which are named after and have as totem familiar beasts, birds, fish or vegetables.

There is said to be but one exception to the rule that marriage must be contracted outside the totem name.

At the death of a man, his widows passed to his brother of the same totem class.

There is also a " totem " system still in vogue.