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- totemistically adverb
Example Sentences
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It seems so primitive, totemistic even, like cowry shells.
From Literature
Tim Bresnan's totemistic record England run of having played in 13 Tests and won them all now stands in danger of coming to a watery end.
From The Guardian
The anthropologists explain the tales of the various transformations of Jupiter and his animal progeny “as in many cases survivals of the totemistic belief in descent from beasts,” while the mythologists explain them as “allegories of the fruitful union of heaven and earth, of rain and grain.”
From Project Gutenberg
Theriolatry suggests totemism; and though we now know that the former can arise and exist quite independently of the latter, recent anthropologists have interpreted the apparent sanctity or prestige of certain animals in Totemism. parts of Greek mythology and religion as the deposit of an earlier totemistic system.
From Project Gutenberg
If indeed we choose to regard totemism as a mere system of nomenclature, by which a tribe names itself after some animal or plant, then we might quote a few examples of Hellenic tribes totemistic in this sense.
From Project Gutenberg
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