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Definition of totem in English: totemnounˈtəʊtəmˈtoʊdəm A natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem. 图腾（被特定社会认为具有精神意义并以之为标志的物体或动物） Example sentencesExamples - Due to her early influence, my spirit guides have always been animal totems.
- When people die they pass on their totems to young children, usually a son or grandson.
- Is it a sign, is it a totem, that normal society has returned?
- Twenty or more clans with additional totems were added later.
- Tribal groups avoid the flesh of animals that are their clan totems.
- If a family has a totem, it cannot eat that animal, which is considered a spiritual protector.
- Hey, at least you people know how to find out about your totems or power animals.
- It is strictly taboo for anyone to eat the meat from an animal that is his or her totem.
- But the truth is, the little girl was in no danger, for like the other members of her tribe, she was a child of an animal totem.
- The meat of one's clan totem was traditionally avoided; even today animals representing totems are rarely eaten.
- As he turned around, he saw a pile of small, stone animal totems had appeared next to the book.
- For centuries our ancestors have had animal totems.
- They were given certain animal totems to feed the people, such as fish, turtle and every other creature that lives in the water.
- They make these animals their totems and are not allowed to hunt, eat, or even be around them.
- After that we turned our attention to animal myths, totems and characters, and I asked them to draw each of themselves as animals with which they identified.
- Long ago, the world was ruled by two great animal totems.
- And so all the clans who have totems, those totems define certain territories.
- Alienated from their surroundings, these youths are chilling totems of a society predicated on division.
- Premodern societies often had animal totems, and they saw animals and humans as intertwined through reincarnation.
- Each family has a totem and is grouped by totems (plants, birds, four-legged creatures) into a system of marriage alliances.
Synonyms icon, god, image, likeness, fetish, statue, figure, figurine, doll, carving
Derivativesadjectivetəʊˈtɛmɪktoʊˈtɛmɪk Others are totemic, involving plants or animals that are symbolic of kin groups. Example sentencesExamples - For Africans, the clan, a group of people descended from a single remote male ancestor, symbolized by a totemic animal and organized politically around a chiefly title, is the largest kinship unit.
- In doing so, they defined the spatial and social organisation of Aboriginal clans, providing each with totemic links to particular places and tracts of country, and to each other.
- The consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups include both human and non-human kin.
- Among these patterns are those that cross-cut human and other species, creating the consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups.
nounˈtəʊtəmɪz(ə)mˈtoʊdəˌmɪzəm I can begin to engage with this metaphysics most efficiently through a consideration of Australian Aboriginal totemism. Example sentencesExamples - In 1888 he contributed articles on taboo and totemism to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which laid the foundation for his work on primitive religion.
- Of course, the reference itself is extremely varied: it is relatively direct in the case of totemism, where the same name designates the totem and the group, and becomes more remote in the case of more advanced religions.
- This destabilises the popular notion that the Aboriginal relation to place through totemism and myth is timeless, and it is probably the case that a historicised Aboriginality is harder to negotiate through the land claim process.
- The last word, proclaiming the totemism of things that are ‘good to eat,’ is uttered in a cadence of triumph.
noun Spiritual weres are animals born into a human body, totemists or those who shift from their were personality to human at random until they gain control of their abilities. Example sentencesExamples - It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable ‘family-name,’ and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented.
- Granted, totemism and therianthropy weave very closely in my life, and there may be some connection there, but I don't think I am a totemist solely because I am a therian.
- Of course, it must have been impossible for Durkheim to consider that maybe peoples like his totemists might have experienced the world as inherently sacred.
- Werecreatures, totemists and a few others have multiple natural shapes.
adjectivetəʊtəˈmɪstɪk True to Lacanian theory, the penis is not just a corporeal implement of sexual pleasure, but a totemistic phallus representing authority negotiated via speech. Example sentencesExamples - But most of the film could have been made by almost anyone, even though I doubt anyone else would have made so much of the connection Alexander has with a hawk - Stone loves his totemistic avatars.
- Drummer Joshua Delpech-Ramey tries to explain it: ‘Hot core means, to me, these four things: apocalyptic pop, brain rap, totemistic love rock and animalistic dance music.’
- And here is the Raiders' totemistic beef: Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
- It depends whether their religion is totemistic, pantheistic or monotheistic, surely.
OriginMid 18th century: from Ojibwa nindoodem 'my totem'. Rhymesfactotum, Gotham, scrotum, teetotum Definition of totem in US English: totemnounˈtōdəmˈtoʊdəm A natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem. 图腾（被特定社会认为具有精神意义并以之为标志的物体或动物） Example sentencesExamples - They make these animals their totems and are not allowed to hunt, eat, or even be around them.
- Tribal groups avoid the flesh of animals that are their clan totems.
- And so all the clans who have totems, those totems define certain territories.
- Each family has a totem and is grouped by totems (plants, birds, four-legged creatures) into a system of marriage alliances.
- The meat of one's clan totem was traditionally avoided; even today animals representing totems are rarely eaten.
- But the truth is, the little girl was in no danger, for like the other members of her tribe, she was a child of an animal totem.
- Premodern societies often had animal totems, and they saw animals and humans as intertwined through reincarnation.
- After that we turned our attention to animal myths, totems and characters, and I asked them to draw each of themselves as animals with which they identified.
- For centuries our ancestors have had animal totems.
- They were given certain animal totems to feed the people, such as fish, turtle and every other creature that lives in the water.
- Long ago, the world was ruled by two great animal totems.
- Twenty or more clans with additional totems were added later.
- Alienated from their surroundings, these youths are chilling totems of a society predicated on division.
- Due to her early influence, my spirit guides have always been animal totems.
- If a family has a totem, it cannot eat that animal, which is considered a spiritual protector.
- Hey, at least you people know how to find out about your totems or power animals.
- When people die they pass on their totems to young children, usually a son or grandson.
- It is strictly taboo for anyone to eat the meat from an animal that is his or her totem.
- Is it a sign, is it a totem, that normal society has returned?
- As he turned around, he saw a pile of small, stone animal totems had appeared next to the book.
Synonyms icon, god, image, likeness, fetish, statue, figure, figurine, doll, carving
OriginMid 18th century: from Ojibwa nindoodem ‘my totem’. |