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On occasion, instead of referring to the totem by the actual being's name, a clan is identified instead by a metaphor describing the characteristic of the clan's totem. The metaphors that survive to today include: Bimaawidaasi 'carrier' = Amik(we) 'beaver' Giishkizhigwan 'cut-tail' = Maanameg 'catfish' Nooke 'tender' = Makwa 'bear'
Multo: is a term used to describe the spirit of a dead person or animal that visually appears in the lives of people that are still alive. [28] Nuno sa punso: (literally, goblin of the mound) goblins or elves who live within mysterious lumps of soil (ant hills); provide a person who steps on their shelter with good luck or misfortune [29]
Pelesit (Malay pronunciation:) is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore. [1] It is generally a cricket, or occasionally a grasshopper.The term literally means "buzzer" from the root word lesit meaning to buzz or whizz, as an insect does. [2]
An animal 'cult' is formed when a species is taken to represent a religious figure. [1] Animal cults can be classified according to their formal features or by their symbolic content. [2] The classical author Diodorus situated the origin of animal worship in a myth in which the gods, threatened by giants, disguised themselves as animals.
social (totems regulate marriage, and often a person cannot eat the flesh of their totem), cult (totems associated with a secret organization), conception (multiple meanings), dream (the person appears as this totem in others' dreams), classificatory (the totem sorts people) and; assistant (the totem assists a healer or clever person).
Power animal, a neoshamanic belief of a tutelary spirit; Spirit guide, an entity that remains as a discarnate spirit to act as a guide or protector to a living incarnated individual; Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe
The word comes from the Nahuatl word tonalli, meaning "day" or "daysign". In the Aztec belief system the day of a person's birth calculated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person – each day was associated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect. The person born on the day of for example "the dog" would ...
During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, [70] possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica. [70] Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors. [70]