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- totemistically adverb
Example Sentences
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He was, and apparently remains, haunted by totemistic objects.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems so primitive, totemistic even, like cowry shells.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
To some extent the Egyptian religious facts were purely totemistic in the strict sense.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
In many of the cases cited above and in many totemistic regulations there are prohibitions of particular sorts of food.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
The amours of Zeus, then, are probably traceable to the common habit of deriving noble descents from a god, and in the genealogical narrative older totemistic and other local myths found a place.**
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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