Crossword-Solution: TOTEMISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Totemism | n. | The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem. |
| Totemism | n. | Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “TOTEMISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belief in symbols. | 1 answer |
| Belief with spirit animals | 1 answer |
| Emblem worship | 1 answer |
| Symbolic worship | 1 answer |
| System of tribal division | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAGEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TOTEMISM (5)
Juvenal exclaims: 'Surely a very religious nation, and a blessed place, where every garden is overrun with gods!' The survivals of totemism among the ancient Greeks are very interesting.
The occurrence of stories of this type among totemic peoples, such as the Tshi-speaking negroes of the Gold Coast, who tell them to explain their totemic taboos, suggests that all such tales may have originated in totemism.
And, for my part, I see no reason to doubt that, like the rest of the world, the Israelites had passed through a period of mere ghost-worship, and had advanced through Ancestor-worship and Fetishism and Totemism to the theological level at which we find them in the books of Judges and Samuel.
Spencer and Gillen also present much evidence as to a previously unknown form of totemism, in which the totem is not hereditary, and does not regulate marriage.
The name "Totemism" or "Totamism" was first applied at the end of the last century by Long(1) to the Red Indian custom which acknowledges human kinship with animals.
Quotes with TOTEMISM (1)
The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1962–2021).