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Janeways animal guide — Captain Janeway's animal guide

In some Native American traditions, an animal guide is a person's counselor and guides and accompanies that person through life.

The creature that guides a person does not define who that person is, it simply chooses to be with them. Therefore, no one can choose their own animal guide. It would offend a guide if its identity was revealed to others. Being in touch with one's animal guide is what Carl Jung thought he invented when he came up with his active imagination technique in 1932.

Kathryn Janeway once guessed that Chakotay's animal guide was a bear, but Chakotay said that while the bear had powerful pokattah, it was not his animal guide; the only thing he was willing to reveal about his guide was that it was female.

In 2371, Chakotay helped Janeway contact her animal guide during a vision quest which turned out to be a tokay gecko.

B'Elanna Torres was noted for being the only person Chakotay knew who actually tried to kill her animal guide. (VOY: "The Cloud")

Apocrypha

In the novel Pathways, Chakotay's animal guide is revealed to be a snake.

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+In some  [[Native American]] traditions, an '''animal guide''' is a person's counselor and guides and accompanies that person through life.
-As part of the [[Native American]] [[vision quest]], an '''animal guide''' offers [[religion|spiritual]] guidance. No one can choose their own [[animal]], the animal chooses them. Each one is unique, but does not represent the person. It would offend a guide if its identity was revealed to others.  [[Chakotay]] prefered not to say the name of his guide as it may be offended; all he ''did'' reveal was that it wasn't the bear, and that was only because he was correcting Janeway's earlier guess. Under the guidance of Chakotay, [[Kathryn Janeway]] discovered her Animal guide was a [[tokay gecko]]. [[B'Elanna Torres]] was noted for being the only person Chakotay knew who actually tried to kill her animal guide on her vision quest. ({{VOY|The Cloud}})
+The creature that guides a person does not define who that person is, it simply chooses to be with them. Therefore, no one can choose their own animal guide. It would offend a guide if its identity was revealed to others. Being in touch with one's animal guide is what [[Carl Jung]] thought he invented when he came up with his active imagination technique in [[1932]].
+[[Kathryn Janeway]] once guessed that [[Chakotay]]'s animal guide was a [[bear]], but Chakotay said that while the bear had powerful [[pokattah]], it was not his animal guide; the only thing he was willing to reveal about his guide was that it was female.
+In [[2371]], Chakotay helped Janeway contact her animal guide during a [[vision quest]] which turned out to be a [[tokay gecko]].
+[[B'Elanna Torres]] was noted for being the only person Chakotay knew who actually tried to kill her animal guide. ({{VOY|The Cloud}})
+=== Apocrypha ===
+In the novel ''[[Pathways]]'', Chakotay's animal guide is revealed to be a [[snake]].
+[[fr:Animal guide]]
 [[Category:Religion]]