Totemic [adjective]
Definition of Totemic:
ancestral
Synonyms of Totemic:
Opposite/Antonyms of Totemic:
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Sentence/Example of Totemic:
On these is a painted model of the totemic animals of the deceased.
Then, just like the other totemic tribes, they feigned to be of the blood and lineage of the sun.
That our British ancestors possessed a totemic system is undoubted.
But even in its beginnings the totemic age transcends these conditions.
Coincident with this development, totemic ideas and customs disappear.
Here again the beginnings are to be found in the totemic age.
Almost all cults of the dead, moreover, originate in the totemic age.
In the totemic age, therefore, man alone has a dwelling-place.
How can you know that a clan is totemic, if it is not called by a totemic name?
Yet, in Central Australia, a man's spirit is a totemic spirit.