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  2. Spirit animal - Wikipedia

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    Power animal, a neoshamanic belief of a tutelary spirit; Spirit guide, an entity that remains as a discarnate spirit to act as a guide or protector to a living incarnated individual; Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe

  3. Totem - Wikipedia

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    social (totems regulate marriage, and often a person cannot eat the flesh of their totem), cult (totems associated with a secret organization), conception (multiple meanings), dream (the person appears as this totem in others' dreams), classificatory (the totem sorts people) and; assistant (the totem assists a healer or clever person).

  4. Totem animals - Wikipedia

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  5. Set animal - Wikipedia

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    The Set-animal, Sha, after an original by E. A. Wallis Budge. [2] [page needed] In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or sha, [citation needed] is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast.

  6. Animal worship - Wikipedia

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    Animal worship (also zoolatry or theriolatry) is an umbrella term designating religious or ritual practices involving animals. This includes the worship of animal deities or animal sacrifice . An animal 'cult' is formed when a species is taken to represent a religious figure. [ 1 ]

  7. Shava Totem - Wikipedia

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    Shava is an animal totem variant of the Mhofu/Mpofu, which is the name of the eland deer-like animal in Southern Africa. Shava is often associated with describing pruness, ware and tier becoming self-sufficient, such as by hunting or fishing.

  8. Animal soul - Wikipedia

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    In kabbalah, the animal soul (נפש הבהמית ‎; nefesh habehamit) is one of the two souls of a Jew. It is the soul that gives life to the physical body, as stated in Tanya , and is the source of animalistic desires as well as innate Jewish characteristics such as kindness and compassion .

  9. Animal symbolicum - Wikipedia

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    Animal symbolicum ("symbol-making" or "symbolizing animal") is a definition for humans proposed by the German neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer. The tradition since Aristotle has defined a human being as animal rationale (a rational animal ).