Home›Dietary Law›Belongs To TraditionBrowse ByBelongs To TraditionThis page groups spirit animals by the group of people they stand for. Wikipedia notes that "a totem ... is 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, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system." Browsing by belongs-to-tradition lets a visitor find every spirit animal standing for the same kind of group.FactsLearn MoreBelongs To TraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsContested UseContested or Appropriated Modern UseWell-attested"Spirit animal" is a twentieth-century English coinage of the neoshamanic movement, from Michael Harner's core shamanism (1980) and the popular animal dictionaries that followed. It is not an Indigenous term, though it is routinely marketed with Indigenous associations; the meanings recorded here belong to the named traditions. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedAnimals & Totems 1Learn MoreSpirit animals This group gathers spirit animals not sorted into a particular zoological class, the beasts held in various traditions to carry powers, teachings or kinship with people. The idea that an animal may be a guide or emblem is ancient and worldwide, from totem and clan animals to the guardian creatures of many cultures. The browser will find the spirit animals the atlas classes here. The entries describe each animal's symbolic associations, distinguishing long-standing cultural meanings from the modern "spirit animal" and "power animal" concepts.Belongs To TraditionFilter Results3 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll5,000,000 (1)14,800,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll4,000,000 (1)14,800,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (2)National Census (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (2)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)Varies by Province (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Customary Norm (1)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2001-01-01 (1)2010-01-01 (1)2011-01-01 (1)2011-01-27 (1)2013-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (2)2021-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll400 BCE (2)632 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll600 BCE (1)586 BCE (1)610 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Interest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (1)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (2)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (1)Two and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (3)TheologyAllMonotheistic: one God (2)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareIslamBelongs To Tradition1 entryJainismBelongs To Tradition1 entryJudaismBelongs To Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and the Western Imaginationtier 1Andrei A. Znamenski, Oxford University Press, 2007on Michael Harner and the making of core shamanismView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.