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  2. Crow (Australian Aboriginal mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The people with the crow as their totem will tell you the brothers fell into a fire below, the Crow getting burnt all over, the Magpie only partly burnt. Those whom have the magpie as their totem will tell the story the same, but that the brothers fell into thick black mud, and the magpie only slightly stained his feathers, the crow covered in ...

  3. Yatagarasu - Wikipedia

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    Yatagarasu as a crow-god is a symbol specifically of guidance. This great crow was sent from heaven by Takamimusubi as a guide for legendary Emperor Jimmu on his initial journey from the region which would become Kumano to what would become Yamato ( Yoshino and then Kashihara ).

  4. Crow religion - Wikipedia

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    Crow religion is the indigenous religion of the ... there is no set animal patron and Baaxpée for a Crow, ... Around this totem are placed twelve posts of cottonwood ...

  5. Anishinaabe clan system - Wikipedia

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    The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.

  6. Cultural depictions of ravens - Wikipedia

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    The crow (sometimes a raven or vulture) is Shani's Vahana. As a protector of property, Shani is able to repress the thieving tendencies of these birds. Dhumavati, the widow goddess associated with strife and inauspiciousness, is depicted riding a crow or in a horseless chariot bearing an emblem of a crow.

  7. Haida mythology - Wikipedia

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    There are innumerable Haida supernatural beings, or Sǥā'na qeda's, including prominent animal crests, wind directions, and legendary ancestors. [1] John R. Swanton , while documenting Haida beliefs as part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition recorded that the highest being in all Haida mythology and the one who gave power to the Sǥā'na ...

  8. Asona - Wikipedia

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    Totem. The totem of the Asona people is the crow or snake. [1] Major towns The major ...

  9. Iroquois mythology - Wikipedia

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    Ga-gaah, the Crow, comes from the sun land carrying a grain of corn in his ear. Hah-gweh-di-yu plants the corn above his mother's body and it becomes the first grain. Ga-gaah hovers over the corn fields, guarding them against harm and claiming his share. [4] [page needed]