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Totem poles consist of a group of figures that represent animals, birds, fish, mythological beings and supernatural beasts.
These poles, called totem poles, are thought to have been worshipped or constructed for frightening enemies.
What is your totem animal?
There are towns on Haida Gwaii with tall totem poles, some ancient.
If the streets in my town on Lulu Island were lined with colourful totem poles, it would be a more spiritual place.
Let's carve a totem pole.
Yuri was at the bottom of the totem pole.
Across the street from the Saxman totem park, native carver Lee Wallace spends his days creating new totems in an old garage turned carving shed.
He thinks it's completely clear that you're higher on the totem pole.
The totem members were forbidden to eat the flesh of the totem animal, or were allowed to do so only under specific conditions.
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These meanings flow from bear-like characteristics imprinted on totem members. Members of the bear clan may have dispositional, cognitive, and physical capabilities similar to those of bear.
“She became a totem,” he added. “She became the personification of a particular response to the pandemic, which people in the far-flung margins of the internet and the not so far-flung margins used against her.”
The best way to determine if you are dreaming or not is to have a totem in your lucid dreams that does not exist in reality. Inducing yourself is as easy as waking up during the night and practicing as you fall back asleep. Say, "I will be aware I am dreaming while I am dreaming by seeing my totem."
Out the front of the Drive-in rose the town’s main tourist attraction, a totem of signs to bizarre places with impossible distances such as Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and so on.
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