Monday, April 19, 2010

Native American Totems

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Andrew Bradley

What is a animal totem?
Animal totems play very large roles within our lives, and they aid in self discovery and capture our imagination. They can give us incredible ways of self expression and awareness. Animal totems can assist in understanding our past and they can reveal glimpses of our future. Native American animal totems are mostly common and animal signs are found throughout cultures as well. Animals can serve as harbingers of personality traits we, as humans, aspire to achieve. This would mean that some of the animals are the MOST POWERFUL SYMBOLS IN OUR SPIRITUAL TOOLBOX. These animals afford visions f how our lives could be if we lived simply with purity of thought and emotion. We can internalize traits and begin to externalize the character we absorb from our totems.

If a certain type of animal repeatedly brings messages to a person, this animal can be known as their totem animal. These animals are believed to be on Earth to teach something, whether it is physical or spiritual. Along with working with the animals comes with mythical powers and the totem animals are sought in the astral world and are considered great advisors.


http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-totems.html

http://discordianism.suite101.com/article.cfm/native-american-totem-animals

Dictionary.com defines totem as:
1. a natural object or an animate being, as in animal or bird, assumed as teh emblem of a clan, family, or group.
2. an object or natural phenomenon with which a family or sib considers itself closely related.
3. anything serving as a distinctive, often venerated, emblem or symbol.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/totem

Anonymous said...

Grant Whitaker

The Deer totems is very
significant in the traits it carries to describing one's life. In native american culture the deer is a gentle creature with a lot of graceful steps as it walks among the forest of mother nature. it has been said if your to heart the heart beat of mother nature, your hearing the heart beat that lives in the dear. the signs of a deer are.
- compassion
- peace
- intellectual
- gentle
- caring
- kind
- subtlety
- gracefulness
- femininity
- gentleness
- innocence
- seller of adventure

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-Totems.html


from another source deer are very watchful animals that are always looking after us well they stay in the distance hiding from blind sight.the words are different that describe the wild deer.
- Love
- Grace
- Peace
- Beauty
- Fertility
- Humility
- Swiftness
- Regrowth
- Creativity
- Spirituality
- Abundance
- Benevolence
- Watchfulness

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-symbolism-deer.html

Anonymous said...

Grant Whitaker

The Deer totems is very
significant in the traits it carries to describing one's life. In native american culture the deer is a gentle creature with a lot of graceful steps as it walks among the forest of mother nature. it has been said if your to heart the heart beat of mother nature, your hearing the heart beat that lives in the dear. the signs of a deer are.
- compassion
- peace
- intellectual
- gentle
- caring
- kind
- subtlety
- gracefulness
- femininity
- gentleness
- innocence
- seller of adventure

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-Totems.html


from another source deer are very watchful animals that are always looking after us well they stay in the distance hiding from blind sight.the words are different that describe the wild deer.
- Love
- Grace
- Peace
- Beauty
- Fertility
- Humility
- Swiftness
- Regrowth
- Creativity
- Spirituality
- Abundance
- Benevolence
- Watchfulness

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-symbolism-deer.html

Anonymous said...

Danny Foussard

White Cattle, especially white buffalo, are a very potent symbol or totem in Native American culture. The Buffalo represents Sacredness, life, great strength, abundance, gratitude. There is a legend in the Lakota Tradition that the White Buffalo Calf Woman gave the Buffalo as a present to the Native American People as long as they continued to worship the Great Spirit. To the Native Americans, when a white buffalo is born its becomes a symbol of rebirth and world harmony.

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-Totems.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/totemanimals.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/prophecyanimals.html

CJ Whitaker said...

CJ Whitaker:

Spider Totem:

The spider in Native American culture represents, balance, wisdom, creativity, communication, the teacher of balance between the past and future, the physical and spiritual. The spider is know in many myths and stories as the grandmother representing care and wisdom. The web of the spider is also commonly thought as wisdom because of how complicated and sophisticated it is. This shows how important the spider is to the Native American culture and how it is a very important totem animal.

CJ Whitaker said...

Websites used for Spider Totem

http://www.animaltotem.com/spider.html

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NA-Totems2.html