What's Your Totem?

[metis]

Brown bear

Is that because you like running bear?

 

[metis]

A white snake.

I won't touch that.

 

[carmenara]

Not sure. I haven't identified myself with any animal but I have an affinity for -

Lizards - I saved one when very young, from a bunch of abusive good for nothings called classmates that abused it to death. Prayed for an hour and it sprang back to life in my hands. It was very much alive and well as I would see it in the garden once a year, every year.
Cats - I can meow at them and they will come to me involuntarily... even when the cat is sleeping. Oh my.
Sheep - Bought a bunch of realistic looking sheep plushies and gave them out to coworkers to help them with stress. Now I have some people volunteering to be 'my' sheep. What have I done? Also my introduction to Hinduism (somehow) because I visited the sheep and offered them and their owners snacks and they commented that reminded them of their religion. Now I know "it is dharma to feed animals"...
Pigeon - I bought my first Hindu statue a couple weeks ago and when I paid for it it immediately started raining cats and dogs. Apparently not satisfied at my obvious awestruck expression, a white pigeon flew into the store and landed at my feet. Oh dear.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Is that because you like running bear?

Not sure what you mean. I just identify with bears. But I have an odd relationship with crows, actually. They tend to like me.

 

[blü 2]

Anyhow, what's your totem?

My totem is the owl. (So, I notice, is @SalixIncendium's.) I once had occasion to explain myself in verse:

All-seeing’s not the same as wise.
More artful owls affect the frown
to finesse a certain vacancy around the eyes

but when Athena strokes your down
(the owl’s her bird) it’s no surprise
her wisdom seems caressed into your crown.

I’m not accounted wise hereabout –
too much thinking with my scrotum –
so I scour for ways to ease the drought

and since I hold it better pro tem
to borrow wisdom than to go without,
I choose the owl to be my totem.​

 

[Jumi]

Not sure what you mean. I just identify with bears. But I have an odd relationship with crows, actually. They tend to like me.

Crows are smart, and they can do some interesting things if they like you enough. Google gift giving crows... they can bring stuff to people who give them food for a long time.

 

[metis]

But I have an odd relationship with crows, actually. They tend to like me.

And I have a "odd relationship" with seagulls as I am all too often the target of their "bombs". I even have a hat that I wear at the beach that has a target on top.

 

[metis]

Crows are smart, and they can do some interesting things if they like you enough. Google gift giving crows... they can bring stuff to people who give them food for a long time.

As are ravens, and we have a ton of them at our place in da U.P.