totem animal
Clan's symbolic creature
A totem animal is a creature believed to have spiritual significance for a person or group—serving as a guardian, ancestor, or symbolic representative.
The concept comes from Indigenous North American traditions but has been widely adopted in New Age spirituality, where people identify personal totem animals through meditation or personality traits: The wolf is my totem animal.
- spirit guideSupernatural personal protector
- guideLeader or instruction book
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- tribal elderSenior community authority figure
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
tribe · wolf · eagle · bear · raven · ancestor · vision quest · spirit journey · medicine · sacred · native · symbol · protector · instinct · wild · feathers · bones · ritual
- guardian spiritsguardian spirit, guardian angel, protective spirit, ancestral spirit, guiding spirit
- spirit guidesspirit guide, guardian angel, wolf spirit, fox spirit, ancestor spirit
- animal fablesfable, fables, beast fables, beast fable, Aesop
- animal worshipcat worship, sacred cow, sacred cows, Anubis, Bastet
- familiarsblack cat, toad, raven, crow, imp
- shapeshiftersshapeshifter, werewolf, shape-shifting, lycanthrope, skinwalker
totem animallivestock
Domesticated farm animals
farm animal · vermin · work animal · beast of burden · draft animal
totem animalpet
Domesticated household companion
companion animal · house pet · lap dog · domesticated animal · stray
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