350 Robertson Smith (_The Religion of the Semites_) holds that the object of sacrifice was thus to maintain this imaginary kinship between the deity and the worshippers. M173 Many tribal customs survived in the kindred and the household. M174 But these survivals mostly found in post-Homeric records. M175 They perhaps belonged to the pre-Achaian inhabitants of Greece. _ 351 Companion to the Iliad_, pp. 6-7. 352 Since the foregoing chapters were in print, I have had the benefit of seeing Herr Erwin Rohde’s admirable work, entitled _Psyche_ (Freiburg and Leipsig, 1894). His view is that the worship of Heroes had the complete form of ancestor-worship: that, ancestors being buried at the hearth, or in the family tomb on private ground, death made no break in the membership of the family. And he claims that the _Seelencult_ or ancestor-worship of the later Greeks must have been continuous from pre-Homeric times. M176 But many were probably of wider parentage. M177 Comparison with the history of the Jews. M178 Reaction in times of distress to earlier tribal habits by the Jews, and perhaps by the Achaians. M179 These tribal habits probably only dormant throughout and common to all Greeks, M180 if not practically even to all tribal systems.