[Art] Lop Bunny as Totem

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Lop-Eared Rabbit as Totem

The colouring is based on barelyshocking's 'Bumblebee,' perhaps the cutest rabbit in all of Western Australia.

( hippety hop, the lops don't stop )

[Art] White Stag as Totem

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White Stag as Totem

The white stag (a deer that is albino or leucistic) is a sacred creature both now, and in ancient Indo-European societies. It was considered a messenger from the otherworld, and was an animal considered mythologically difficult to capture - or impossible to capture.

Much of the folklore around the white stag and hart focus on hunting or capturing it, and as such, I tend to see an element of sacrifice and the nature of the hunt embodied in this animal - hence the glyph focusing on the speared heart. The rest of the folklore tends to focus on its otherworldly connections, and affiliations with royalty.

( blood, blood everywhere, and not a drop to drink. )

Animal Totem Icons - 20 under the cut

Rules:

1. No hot-linking
2. Please credit to moonvoice for the icons AND the art
3. Comments are love

The animals featured are: Amazon Milk Frog, American Shrew Mole, Asiatic Lion, Binturong, Black Jaguar, Blue Mountain Swallowtail (Butterfly), Cinnamon Sparrow, Dhole, Himalayan Brown Bear, Jaguar, Meerkat, Shetland Sheepdog, Orange-Faced Sprite (Dragonfly), Peregrine Falcon, Red Panda, Ruby Topaz Hummingbird, Rufous Hare Wallaby, Side-Striped Jackal, Thylacoleo (Megafauna: Marsupial Lion), Unicorn.

I write totem animal meanings as well! You can check them out here.

You can find all of my totem artwork at my DeviantArt.



( so here's where they're hiding )

x-posted.

ETA: IF any of the pictures don't show for you, press refresh a few times. The Livejournal Scrapbook function is being a bit wiggy still; the pictures are there, just hiding behind multiple refreshes. Lol.

[Art] Gray Wolf as Totem - 03

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Gray Wolf as Totem

Perhaps one of the most common totem animals in existence! And this is reinforced by the fact that this is now the third time that it has been requested in one of my request lists! I think I'm going to put an embargo on gray wolf requests for the next one!

Want to read about what wolf represents as a totem? Go here: http://www.wildspeak.com/vilturj/totems/wwolf.html

Also, I'm putting an embargo on gray wolf requests in the next request list; no offense folks, but three gray wolves 'as totems' is enough! At least for the next six months.

( ARROOOOOOOOOO )

One more totem and I've finished the request list!!! PHEW!

[Art] Fennec Fox as Totem

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Fennec Fox as Totem

Aside from being perhaps one of the cutest canines in existence, the fennec fox has awesomely large ears to help it maintain and regulate its temperature in the arid and hot environments in which it naturally lives; and to help with prey detection.

In some areas of the world, fennec foxes are kept as pets (although are not truly domesticated, and it's not like owning a 'typical' dog!) They are the only species of fox to regularly run in harems, instead of behaving in a solitary nature like most other foxes.

( Like Jeff Fennec! But not. )