Noun:

குலமரபு சின்ன,

totem's Usage Examples:

This tribe may legally marry within the totem, but always avoids such unions.

The Beast Gods The nomadic tribesmen of the Northern Wastes worship animal totems, which differ between tribes.

The Bechuanas, who occupy by far the largest domain, and preserve the totemic tribal system, were probably the first arrivals from the north or the north-sea coastlands.

nomadic tribesmen of the Northern Wastes worship animal totems, which differ between tribes.

But we apply no such explanation to similar savage legends, and our theory is that the Osirian myth is only one of these retained to the time of Plutarch by the religious conservatism of a__race which, to the time of Plutarch, preserved in full vigour most of the practices of totemism.

But however much they've become totems of cool, they could be cooler still.

How far totemism, or belief in deified animal ancestors, existed in prehistoric Israel, as evidenced by the tribal names Simeon (hyena, wolf), Caleb (dog), IIamor (ass), Rahel (ewe) and Leah (wild cow), as well as by the laws respecting clean and unclean animals, is too intricate and speculative a problem to be discussed here.

In fact, while Robertson Smith (in Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, as well as his Religion of the Semites, followed by Stade and Benzinger) strongly advocated the view that clear traces of totemism can be found in early Israel, later writers, such as Marti, Gesch.

These rites are common in North America, but are worked by members of gilds or societies, not by totem kins.

totemism, astral religion, jurisprudence).

Most of the magic is worked (Intichiuma in Arunta) by the members of each totem kin or group for the behoof of the totem as an article of food supply.

Each spirit, as it quits its nanja or natural haunt to enter the mother, drops a churinga, a slab of stone or wood marked with the child's totem and containing its spirit attributes.

And look what happened to the foxhunting Bill: a political totem that made too many people too angry over absolutely bugger all.

Synonyms:

kindred, clan, kinship group, tribe, totemist, kin group, kin,

Antonyms:

dissimilar, unrelated,