Your distant African soul, reimagined.
TOTEM ANCESTRAL
Who were you, before being who you are? A unique work, woven in the language of origins, that brings you back to the source. Nourished by African cosmogonies, it reveals the ancestor asleep within you.
Begin my journey
A soul · Travels · Sixty thousand years · To speak to you · Listen · Totem Ancestral
Before the passage
A deep exploration of your origins,
Who were you?
Where memory stops and the soul begins to speak.
The Origin
The starting point of your lineage, where everything began.
The Echo
The resonance of your ancestors in today's choices.
The Breath
The vital energy passed from generation to generation.
After the Totem
Your ancestor has a word for you this week
The questionnaire revealed your clan. The Consultation lets it speak to you again — same voice, same world, the same archetype.
Not a new test, not a feed to scroll through: a brief, unhurried gesture, once a week. The cowries fall, and the ancestor answers. A ritual, not a notification.
Compose my Totem
Our approach
The manifesto in three movements
Three movements, one thread: turning what you carry in silence into a work that can be passed on.
Listen
Four direct questions to bring up what the ancestors already whisper within you.
Compose
The digital griot weaves your answers with African cosmogonies into a unique fable.
Transmit
Your Totem takes shape as text, voice and image, ready to be kept and shared.
The threshold
15 minutes,
before crossing over
Four gestures to receive what comes.
Set the world down
Settle in as if before a fire, at night, when the elders speak.
Open your ears
The ancestor crossed sixty thousand years to speak to you — hear them.
Speak true
The griot does not want the right answer. He wants yours — the one that comes from further back than memory.
Keep your TOTEM
As one keeps a name, as one keeps a secret. It exists only through you, and will live nowhere else.
Offerings
Three ways to receive the work
Choose the format that best suits your quest and your legacy.
Origin
The first step towards your source.
Revelation
The creation in full: the story, the face, the voice.
Family
For roots that are shared.
Every Totem Ancestral is a unique creation, shaped especially for you from your own story.
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Who we are
A creation house
TOTEM ANCESTRAL is a creation house founded in Paris, at the crossroads of digital art and African memory.
We are not archivists, seers or genealogists. We are guides between who you are and who you could have been.
Discover our manifesto →They crossed
What they think
Read the words of those who have already awakened their Totem.
I cried while reading the Parchment. It felt like nothing else. A raw emotion.
— Aïcha · Dakar
Frequent questions
Clarify the mystery
The essentials before entrusting your matter to the griot.
Yes. Your Totem is generated from your specific answers. No two creations are identical.
No. We explore spiritual and cultural memory, not biology. This is an artistic and symbolic quest.
Depending on the offer, you receive digital access, a complete box and files prepared in your personal space.
Your answers are only used to compose and deliver the artwork. They are not sold to third parties.
Yes. You can answer on their behalf, or give them access so they can experience the journey themselves. The choice is yours.
