Sentence examples for totem animals from inspiring English sources

In tribes or clans with totem animals, the totem is off limits.

About 50 exogamous clans are recognized, each having principal and secondary totem animals that may not be killed or eaten.

The stories these individuals have shared with Muala, such as of their relationships with their totem animals, have been published in his book, Tales from Gorongosa.

"Faith/Void" is a warm elegy to atheism while "Jim Cain" ponders the mystery of ordinary things; as ever, totem animals look on as Callahan probes carnivorous emotions.

Totem animals are represented in various manifestations: as spirit creatures in sacred flutes, in disguises, and in figures preserved in each man's house.

Native people in Sumatra, including the modern Sumatrans of Malayan descent and the Orang Rimba or Kubu – the aboriginal people of Sumatra – ascribe no supernatural powers to the creature, unlike tigers, pythons and other naneks: spirit or tribal totem animals.

Her totem animal was the snake.

The porcupine is his totem animal.

His other perennial subject was the cat, his totem animal.

Every Susu belongs to a patrilineal clan identified by name and totem animal.

Balthus was avian in physique though feline in temperament, and his totem animal was the cat.