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  2. Anishinaabe clan system - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    Name Images Chinese characters Border Gong (工; work) and bats Decorative Floral and twines Grass pattern Tang caowen [4] Twined branches Chanzhiwen [4] Curves Pommel pattern Guri (屈輪) / Pommel scroll [21] Geometric Diagonal Diagonal straight lines Lishui: Diagonal wavy lines Semicricles Horizontal semi-circles Woshui Curvilinear Swirl [4 ...

  4. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Parthenope – name meaning "maiden-voiced", Daughter of Achelous and Terpsichore; Pisinoe – daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Sterope; Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human to swan; Tengu – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog; Thoth (Ancient Egyptian ...

  5. Nsenene - Wikipedia

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    This species has long been known as one of the many totems of Buganda Kingdom of Uganda. This species is a delicacy in central and south-western Uganda . The insect is also found in South Africa , Malawi , Ivory Coast , Congo , Ghana , Kenya , Burundi , Cameroon , Rwanda , Tanzania , Zimbabwe , Zambia , Madagascar , and Mauritius . [ 5 ]

  6. Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    The name "Grasshopper" was given to the Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4 light aircraft, both used for reconnaissance and other support duties in World War II. The name is said to have originated when Major General Innis P. Swift saw a Piper making a rough landing and remarked that it looked like a grasshopper for its bouncing progress. [94] [95] [96]

  7. Representation of animals in Western medieval art - Wikipedia

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    The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.

  8. List of Philippine mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    Multo: is a term used to describe the spirit of a dead person or animal that visually appears in the lives of people that are still alive. [34] Nuno sa punso: (literally, goblin of the mound) goblins or elves who live within mysterious lumps of soil (ant hills); provide a person who steps on their shelter with good luck or misfortune [16]

  9. Pseudochorthippus parallelus - Wikipedia

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    Pseudochorthippus parallelus [2] (often known by its synonym Chorthippus parallelus), the meadow grasshopper, [3] is a common species of grasshopper in the tribe Gomphocerini. [4] It is found in non-arid grasslands throughout the well vegetated areas of Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia.