Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globeBourke, John Gregory
Religion
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe
Bourke, John Gregory
Scatology
“Parece muchas veces pensar que estan haciendo placer y estan
idolatrando; y pensar que estan jugando y estan echando suertes de los
sucesos delante de nuestros ojos y no los entendemos y pensamos que se
disciplinan y estanse sacrificando.
“Y asi erraron mucho los que con bueno celo (pero no con mucha
prudencia), quemaron y destruyeron al principio todas las pinturas de
antiguallas que tenian; pues, nos dejaron tan sin luz que delante de
nuestros ojos idolatran y no los entendemos.
“En los mitotes, en los baños, en los mercados, y en los cantares que
cantan lamentando sus Dioses y sus Señores Antiguos, en las comedias,
en los banquetes, y en el diferenciar en el de ellas, en todo se halla
supersticion é idolátria; en el sembrar, en el coger, en el encerrar en
los troges, hasta en el labrar la tierra y edificar las casas; pues en
los mortuorios y entierros, y en los casamientos y en los nacimientos de
los niños, especialmente si era hijo de algun Señor; eran estrañas las
ceremonias que se le hacian; y donde todo se perfeccionaba era en la
celebration de las fiestas; finalmente, en todo mezclaban supersticion é
idolatria; hasta en irse á bañarse al rio los viejos, puesto escrúpulo á
la republica sino fuese habiendo precedido tales y tales ceremonias; todo
lo cual nos es encubierto por el gran secreto que tienen.”—(Diego Duran,
lib. 2, concluding remarks.)
Fray Diego Duran, a Fray Predicador of the Dominican order, says, at the
end of his second volume, that it was finished in 1581.
The very same views were held by Father Geronimo Boscána, a Franciscan,
who ministered for seventeen years to the Indians of California. Every
act of an Indian’s life was guided by religion.—(See “Chinigchinich,”
included in A. A. Robinson’s “California,” New York, 1850.)
The Apaches have dances in which the prehistoric condition of the
tribe is thus represented; so have the Mojaves and the Zuñis; while in
the snake dance of the Moquis and the sun dance of the Sioux the same
faithful adherence to traditional costume and manners is apparent.
THE URINE DANCE OF THE ZUÑIS MAY CONSERVE A TRADITION OF THE TIME WHEN
VILE ALIMENT WAS IN USE.
The Zuñi dance may therefore not improperly be considered among other
points of view, under that which suggests a commemoration of the earliest
life of this people, when vile aliment of every kind may have been in use
through necessity.
An examination of evidence will show that foods now justly regarded as
noxious were once not unknown to nations of even greater development than
any as yet attained by the Rio Grande Pueblos.
Necessity was not always the inciting motive; frequently religious frenzy
was responsible for orgies of which only vague accounts and still vaguer
explanations have come down to us.
The religious examples will be adduced at a later moment, as will those
in which human or animal excreta have been employed in ordeals and
punishments, terrestrial and supernal.
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