Home›Fish›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. 3OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedSpirit-animal entries whose subject is a fish in modern zoological classification. The class is a browsing frame only: traditions sort animals by their own criteria - edible and inedible, clean and unclean, wild and domestic, kin and stranger - and not by biological class. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedAnimals & Totems 1OriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedModern zoological classification: Pisces, a class named by Linnaeus in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae (1758). 4Learn MoreFish as spirit animals This group holds the fish among the spirit animals: creatures of the water, which in symbolic lore are often linked to the unconscious, to fertility and abundance, and to hidden depths, and which carry sacred meaning in several traditions. The browser will find the fish spirit animals the atlas gathers. The entries describe each animal's symbolic associations, distinguishing traditional meanings from the modern spirit-animal idea.Belongs To TraditionFilter Results1 entryAdherents Today MaximumAll2,000,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll2,000,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Establishment StatusAllVaries by Province (1)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2010-01-01 (1)2011-01-27 (1)2020-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll632 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll610 (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)Position on UsuryAllInterest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllPartly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTwo and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)TheologyAllMonotheistic: one God (1)Show ResultsIslamBelongs To Tradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005the article on animals in religionView the Source3. 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 Source4. Systema Naturae, 10th editiontier 1Carl Linnaeus, Laurentius Salvius, 1758the tenth edition, 1758Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (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.