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Others are totemic, involving plants or animals that are symbolic of kin groups.
But it's a testament to his totemic presence and charisma that he's entirely convincing.
A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
But in any war over ideas, symbols matter as much as practicalities and foundation hospitals have thus become totemic.
The consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups include both human and non-human kin.
It is something talismanic, totemic, intangible, all-consuming, corrosive, compulsive, elusive, indefinable.
Among these patterns are those that cross-cut human and other species, creating the consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups.
Maybe it's the sheer volume of scandals on the landscape today, robbing any one of its totemic power to shock and dismay voters.
Setting aside the heat and noise over the totemic NHS, the state of the public services has barely registered in the campaign.
Perhaps, as demonstrations of what ancient people stood for, the big totemic building never shows the best of the way they were.
According to Aboriginal belief, totemic spirit ancestors emerged from the earth and descended from the sky to awaken a dark and silent world.
The iDrum series speaks about how we use icons and objects of pop-culture as totemic representation.
The turtle is a symbol with totemic value to Fr. Fenton and also refers to his Cree heritage.
However, they also travelled widely to trade, find water and seasonal produce and for ritual and totemic gatherings.
To make matters worse, Santos went into the return leg at the Maracana a month later with their totemic star missing through injury.
He decorated his Christmas cards with totemic animals copied from Aboriginal rock galleries, not sheep and oxen kneeling in prayer around a manger.
In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him.
Diversity is largely accepted and encouraged, but lacks the totemic significance assigned to it by boomer activists.
That instruction, which was both theoretical and practical, concerned inter alia the totemic and historical traditions, and the duties and rights of each individual towards society.
Species harvest restrictions: Among the Tonda, certain species, such as crocodile or eagle, have totemic significance and may be barred from hunting, and size limits are traditionally placed on some wildlife or fish.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then, just like the other totemic tribes, they feigned to be of the blood and lineage of the sun.
And what is true of the mana as well as the orenda and wakan, may be said equally well of the totemic principle.
To explain the sacred character of totemic things by postulating this characteristic, is to answer the question by the question.
The Seri are loosely organised in a number of exogamic, matrilineal, totemic clans.
The former are patrilineal and the latter are grouped into matrilineal exogamic totemic clans.
Forms that resemble totemic creatures push and pull at a globe like huge cats batting at a ball of yarn in a jungly night.
Some, covered with obscene totemic figures and designs, were carved from solid tree trunks forty or fifty feet in length.
Shipbuilding is as totemic an industry to Scotland as the Grangemouth refinery.
On these is a painted model of the totemic animals of the deceased.
That our British ancestors possessed a totemic system is undoubted.
But even in its beginnings the totemic age transcends these conditions.
Coincident with this development, totemic ideas and customs disappear.
Not bad for a 97-year-old and a reminder of how totemic the old gel was in our darkest days.
These totemic clans are exogamous, like those of Mayne's Tsimshians.
The latter at once concludes and annuls totemic tribal organization.
But it is not to the point, for the Arunta have no totemic clans.
In that normal totemic stage the Arunta have at one time been.
Totemic lock O'Connell will retire from Test rugby at the end of Ireland's World Cup campaign, but will surely now miss the rest of the tournament.
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