totemic

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Totemic themes—power, the kind you find within and the kind you wield in relationships; physical pain, inflicted both directly and at a remove; and guilt, both personal and cultural—weave through the film.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Totemic jazz musician John Coltrane took several, as did Neil Armstrong, although they were on the moon and were more of a leap.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2010

And they have adopted the devices of these three animals as the general Totemic types and bond of their separation into clans.

From Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Totemic animals controlled the destinies of tribes and families.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Tooi-tonga-fafine, sister of the Tooitonga, 110 Totemic gods of Samoa, 202 Totemism, Tongan polytheism developed out of, 94; Samoan worship of animals developed out of, 200 sqq.,

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir