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  2. Orcas in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The 2013 video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies features a performing killer whale being tried in court. The killer whale, which is referred to mostly as an orca, is defended by the titular character Phoenix Wright on the charge of killing its owner. In the second trial day the killer whale is cross-examined via telecast ...

  3. Tlingit clans - Wikipedia

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    The moieties of the Tlingit society are the Raven (Yéil) and Eagle, Wolf, killer whale, Frog, Thunderbird and hummingbird and butterfly. The similarity to moiety names are because its primary crests differ between the north and the south regions of Tlingit territory, probably due to influence from the neighboring tribes of Haida , Tsimshian ...

  4. Akhlut - Wikipedia

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    In 1900, the American naturalist Edward William Nelson described the kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk among a number of other mythical and composite animals: [1]. It is described as being similar in form to the killer whale and is credited with the power of changing at will to a wolf; after roaming about over the land it may return to the sea and again become a whale.

  5. Whale worship - Wikipedia

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    Whale embryos discovered in their mother's womb are removed with the utmost precaution and interred as a human being with proper reverence and special rituals, or that the bones of the killed whale are also preserved in the vicinity of a shrine in some areas (Naumann, 1974, p. 5).

  6. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Penghou – A Chinese tree spirit with the face of a human and the body of a dog. Pratyangira – A Hindu Goddess having the head of a lion. Sekmet – The lioness-headed Egyptian Goddess. Set – The dog-headed Egyptian God. Tikbalang - A tall Filipino horse-headed man. Tumburu - A horse faced Hindu deity. Varaha – A boar-headed avatar.

  7. If You See a Cardinal, Here's the True, Unexpected ... - AOL

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    The spiritual meaning behind seeing two of them is that you should take a closer look at your relationships. "Two has a highly intuitive meaning, it is the most relationship-focused number ...

  8. Whaling on the Pacific Northwest Coast - Wikipedia

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    [13] [12] The chief would slowly and purposefully imitate a whale's actions and movements, rising to the surface and blowing water from his mouth towards the middle of the body of water he was bathing in. [12] His wife held a rope tied around his waist, symbolic of the harpoon, and would sing a song to the spirit of the whale, telling it how ...

  9. If You See a Hawk, Here's the True, Unexpected ... - AOL

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    Shamanic teacher and spiritual healer Dr. Jonathan Dubois has studied hawk symbolism extensively. "The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a ...