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The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.
Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain)
Inapertwa in Arrernte mythology, simple ancestral beings formed into all plants, birds, animals and later humans; Ipilja-ipilja 100ft gecko of Anindilyakwa myth. Adorned with hairs and whiskers. Spews swamp water to make the clouds of the sky, thunder is ipilja-ipilja's roaring. Ipilja-ipilja's home is a swamp filled with deadly waters.
The ant works hard all summer, while the grasshopper plays. In winter, the ant is ready but the grasshopper starves. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Ant and the Grasshopper" explores the fable's symbolism via complex framing. [91] Other human weaknesses besides improvidence have become identified with the grasshopper's behaviour. [73]
clan (a group with common descent share a totem or totems), local (people living or born in a particular area share a totem) and "multiple" (people across groups share a totem). The functions identified were: social (totems regulate marriage, and often a person cannot eat the flesh of their totem), cult (totems associated with a secret ...
Peisistratus hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the Acropolis of Athens for protection. [10] Another way for protection from enchantment used by the ancient Greeks was by spitting into the folds of the clothes. [10] Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye. [11]
An adult female Schayera baiulus is approximately 3.5 cm long, including its head and body, and is a flightless grasshopper. [5] The appearance of the Schayera baiulus is similar to Apotropis spp. [6] The male nymph specimen found suggests that an adult male would also be flightless due to the premature wing rudiments found on the young male grasshopper. [6]
In this way, the pictures served to secure a successful hunt. While others interpreted the cave images as depictions of hunting accidents or of ceremonies, Frobenius believed it was much more likely that "what was undertaken [in the paintings] was a consecration of the animal effected not through any real confrontation of man and beast but by a ...