+624+. Though there is no proof of the existence of all-pervading taboo systems among the peoples of Asia and America, there are notices of taboo regulations in particular cases in these regions. At the birth of a child the Hindu father was subject to certain restrictions along with the mother, and his taboo was removed by bathing.[1030] Among the Sioux Indians on the death of a child the father is taboo for a period of six months or a year.[1031] In West African Calabar there are taboos (called _ibet_) on individuals, connected with spirits, the guardians of children.[1032] In Assam economic and other taboos are elaborate and well organized.[1033] Such observances, in connection with death, are found among the Kafirs[1034] and the Eskimo.[1035] +625+. For the ancient civilized peoples there is no proof of the existence of general taboo systems. Various particular prohibitions, involving a sense of danger in certain things, are mentioned above; they relate chiefly to corpses, to infected houses, to women in connection with menstruation and childbirth,[1036] to certain official persons (as the Roman flamen dialis). There are also the lists of unlucky days (Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Roman). The origin of food prohibitions (Hebrew, Pythagorean) is uncertain;[1037] they may have arisen, as is suggested above, from general regard for sacred animals and plants, or from totemistic relations, or from other conditions unknown to us; the Hebrew lists of forbidden animals may have been gradually expanded under the guidance of antagonism to surrounding non-Yahwistic cults. Whether the ancient taboo usages are the remains of older more extensive systems or represent the extreme point to which tabooism was carried by the communities in question the data do not enable us to decide. +626+. In various places, outside of the Polynesian area, we find terms that bear a more or less close resemblance in signification to taboo.[1038] Melanesian _tambu_ is that which has a sacred character.[1039] The Borneo terms (_lali_, _pemate_, _mali_, _penti_) are mentioned just above, and there is the _pomali_ of Timor (in the Malayan Archipelago). The Malagasy _fady_ is defined as 'dangerous, prohibited.'[1040] In Gabun (West Africa) _orunda_ is said to mean 'prohibited to human beings.'[1041] The Hebrew _tamē_ is used of things dangerous, not to be touched, ritually defiling,[1042] and this sense sometimes attaches to the term _qadosh_ (rendered in the English version by 'holy'), which involves the presence of a supernatural (and therefore dangerous) quality.[1043]