Who that has a desperate, hungry eye can have the slightest regard for these existent governments, laws, codes, principles, ideals, ideas, totems, and taboos?
The Tribe of Boyi was an important branch of the clan in the east of Ancient China with birds as their totems, being the descendents of Shaohao surnamed Ying.
China's traditional auspicious articles, such as dragon and phoenix were the totems of ancient China's clans.
However, they have deep spiritual ties to the moon, and they Revere the mighty moon-spirit Luna as one of their greatest totems.
A social system is based on affiliations to totems.
The skyscrapers invade the city and rise always higher, such as new totems, always more remarkable, always more impressing.
“All these tokens and totems, it’s part of what we do, ” Ms. Burlingame said.
But again, perhaps problematically, they are beautiful statues - inspiring, optimistic, and utopian; totems to the radiant future that was always promised, but never quite arrived.
In traditional Maori practice, the heads of one's forefathers, often tattooed to the bone of the skull, were kept as totems honoring their spirits.
some taboos and sacrifices concerning yak totems; the decline of tokenism and the collective unconsciousness; and the analysis made from the total theory perspective,we can surmise that the yak must have been regarded as a totem to the early Tibetans in a certain time and in certain areas.
She was much too down-to-earth to be superstitious, but two little totems she kept close.
That kind of open-ended vision doesn’t work here, where our funding environment rewards near-term products, not totems.
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