Tribal symbols

Usage examples of totems.

Totemic spirits traveled too, but as long as members of the clan had their amulets, their totems could track them from the cave and come when they were needed.

I meditate for the totems of the two babies, I will ask for hers, too.

They were very obvious about it so everyone would know their children would learn their totems at the cave ceremony.

A successful hunt would not only bring meat for the feast that would be part of the cave ceremony, but would assure the clan that their totems did, indeed, favor their new home.

One was familiarizing the spirits of their protective totems with their new home, usually done in private by Mog-ur with an audience of men only.

The successful hunt had already shown that their totems approved of the site, and the feast confirmed their intention to make it a permanent home, though the clan might be gone for extended periods at certain times.

He made gestures in the unspoken formal language, asking the spirits to gather close and observe the youngsters whose protective totems were to be revealed.

The cave was theirs, their totems were firmly established in their new home, and the clan could move in when they woke up.

That was the reason female totems had to be less powerful than male totems, for even a weak totem gained strength from the life force that resided in females.

Namings were often held before breakfast, shortly after the sun rose while the totems were still close by after protecting the clan during the night.

The members of the clan filed past, each repeating the name to familiarize themselves and their totems with this newest addition.

To the Clan, a new life was formed by the ubiquitous essences of the totems, and any relationship between sexual activity and childbirth was beyond conception.

He chose you, he may decide to protect you always because he chose you, but all totems are happier with a home.

Creb always said powerful totems are not easy to live with, but he never told me the greatest gifts they give are inside.

With a silent prayer to their totems as the frightened, trumpeting, gigantic animal stampeded toward them, the brave young men raced into the face of the charging mammoth waving smoky torches in front of them.