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Power animal, a New Age, neoshamanic belief of a spirit that helps an individual. Spirit guide, a spiritual entity that acts as a guide or protector to a human being. Totem, in North American Indigenous cultures, a spirit or animal revered as sacred, that guides, helps, or protects individuals, lineages, and nations.
A familiar spirit – (alter ego, doppelgänger, personal demon, personal totem, spirit companion) is the double, the alter ego, of an individual. It does not look like the individual concerned. Even though it may have an independent life of its own, it remains closely linked to the individual. The familiar spirit can be an animal (animal ...
Animism. Animism (from Latin: anima meaning ' breath, spirit, life ') [1][2] is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. [3][4][5][6] Animism perceives all things— animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words —as being animated, having agency and ...
Nagual. The Nahuals described in the Borgia Codex, metamorphic creatures capable of changing their physical form into any other animal form or even into human forms at will. In Mesoamerican folk religion, a nagual (pronounced [na'wal]) or nahual (both from the Nahuatl word nāhualli [naˈwaːlːi]) is a human being who has the power to ...
Animal spirits (Keynes) Keynes in 1933. Animal spirits is a term used by John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money to describe the instincts, proclivities and emotions that seemingly influence human behavior, which can be measured in terms of consumer confidence. [1]
Pre-colonial Filipinos were animistic.They believed that everything has a spirit, from rocks and trees to animals and humans to natural phenomena. [2] [6] [7] These spirits are collectively known as anito, derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu and Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu ("spirit of the dead").
Manitou (/ ˈmænɪtuː /), akin to the Haudenosaunee orenda, is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. [ 1 ]Aashaa monetoo means "good spirit", while otshee monetoo means "bad spirit".
In philosophy and religion, spirit is the vital principle or animating essence within humans or, in some views, all living things.Although views of spirit vary between different belief systems, when spirit is contrasted with the soul, the former is often seen as a basic natural force, principle or substance, whereas the latter is used to describe the organized structure of an individual being ...