Originally posted by Vladamir no1years ago a tribe of American Indians had a totem in the village (the village, now that was a predictable film) sorry, as i was saying, one day a so called Christan priest arrived at this village and accused the Americans of worshipping false idols and had it torn down and burnt..
Whats your totem and why?
Mines a golden eagle because thats my spirit animal 🙂
If this so called christian priest had taken the time to find out, he would have found out that this totem was only a status symbol, a sort of historic record that original Americans understood.
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Originally posted by gollumprawnInteresting point! Anthropologists originally saw totemism as the ealiest form of religion, but the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-) calls this an anthropological mirage and has since stated that totemism is classification, ie classifying animal species and plants in the surrounding environment and mans relationship between them.
years ago a tribe of American Indians had a totem in the village (the village, now that was a predictable film) sorry, as i was saying, one day a so called Christan priest arrived at this village and accused the Americans of worshipping false idols and had it torn down and burnt..
If this so called christian priest had taken the time to find out, he wou ...[text shortened]... is totem was only a status symbol, a sort of historic record that original Americans understood.
