Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we…

— S. Kelley Harrell

“The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own…

— George Eiot

“These are the gods who have passed out of memory. Even their names are lost. The people who worshiped them are as forgotten as…

— Neil Gaiman

“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”

— Arundhati Roy

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most…

— Emily Carr

“We become paralysed with fear and guilt, obsessed by ‘labels’ and become unable to question the reasoning behind our beliefs or indeed realise that…

— Carole Carlton

“We don’t know whether they’re going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The…

— Janet Beizer

“At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what remains its critically profound…

— S. Kelley Harrell

“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.”

— K. Ford K

“We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too…

— Catherine Crowe

“(...) we must learn to accept that all creatures, however fearsome they may be, are of divine origin.”

— Colleen Houck