Chapter 5, Part Two, The Bird Totem Dictionary Summary and Analysis

What comes afterward is a dictionary of bird totems. This listing is rather long, running from page 117 to 208. The first portion of this is covered here, and there will be more summary chapters that are devoted strictly to this. The way to know the totems is to actually know the entity and its type as well as possible. Of course every individual creature is unique. At the same time, there are numerous characteristics are specific to a species. Observation of sufficient numbers of any species will provide a fairly accurate perception of what they are like. This, along with exposure and innate affinity are what make the totem relationship different from other relationships.

The author has arranged these in alphabetical order. Readers may wish to read through each of...