Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on TotemismWake, C. Staniland (Charles Staniland)
Religion
Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism
Wake, C. Staniland (Charles Staniland)
Phallicism; Serpent worship; Totemism
[306] Casalis’ “Les Basoutos,” p. 221. The Hottentots are said to have
given animal names, such as Horse, Lion, Sheep, Ass, &c., to their
children. Kolben’s “Cape of Good Hope,” p. 147.
[307] “Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia,” pp. 17,192, _et seq._
[308] Quoted by Dr. J. F. M’Lennan in the _Fortnightly Review_, vol.
vi., new series, p. 418.
[309] The “Genealogical Tree of the Turks” ascribes a wolf paternity
to the sons of the Princess Choyumna Khan (Miles’ Translation, p. 47).
Is there a totemic reference in the game of Kökburi, “green-wolf,”
practised by the Nomads of Central Asia in imitation of bride-racing?
Vambery’s “Travels in Central Asia,” p. 323.
[310] “Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity,” by Lewis H. Morgan, p.
424.
[311] These and nine other animals give names to the twelve years of
the Mogul calendar.
[312] Mahabharata.—Talbot Wheeler’s “History of India,” vol i., p. 412.
[313] _Fortnightly Review_, vol. vi., n. s., p. 563, _et seq._
[314] “The Native Tribes of South Australia,” p. 260.
[315] “Kamilaroi and Kurnai,” p. 166.
[316] “Ancient Society,” p. 69.
[317] “Travels in North-Western Australia,” vol. ii., p. 229.
[318] “Description of the Coast of Guinea,” p. 129.
[319] “Life in the Southern Isles,” p. 25.
[320] Turner’s “Nineteen Years in Polynesia,” p. 238.
[321] See Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii., p. 213.
[322] Wood’s “Natural History of Man,” vol. ii., pp. 271, 290.
[323] Seemann’s “Mission to Viti,” p. 391. On the temple at Dorey
in New Guinea are sculptured the representations of the crocodile
and serpent ancestors of some of the Dorean families. D’Estrey’s
“Papouasie,” p. 132.
[324] “Manners and Customs of the Indians,” vol. i., p. 36, and vol.
ii., 247.
[325] “Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast,” vol. ii., p. 128.
[326] _Fortnightly Review_, vol. vi., n. s., p. 408.
[327] Ditto, p. 569, and vol. vii., n. s., p. 214.
[328] “Kinship and Marriage,” p. 186, _et seq._
[329] “Kinship and Marriage,” p. 204.
[330] “Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient,” 4th edition, p. 28.
[331] Lenormant, “Histoire Ancienne de l’Orient,” 9th edition, t. ii.,
p. 212, _et seq._
[332] “Origine de tous les Cultes,” t. i., p. 77.
[333] _Fortnightly Review_, vol. vi., n. s., p. 563.
[334] Dupuis _Op. cit._, t. iii., “De la Sphere,” p. 19.
[335] “Custom and Myth,” 2nd edition, p. 262.
[336] As to supposed use of the totem as a tattoo mark, see M’Lennan,
_loc. cit._, p. 418, and Smith’s “Kinship and Marriage in Early
Arabia,” p. 213, _et seq._
[337] “Origin of Civilisation,” 3rd edition, p. 199.
[338] Ditto, p. 327.
[339] Ditto, p. 253.
[340] “Primitive Culture,” vol. ii., p. 215.
[341] _Loc. cit._, p. 422.
[342] Dupuis “Abrégé de l’Origine,” pp. 71, 83.
[343] Ditto, p. 66.
[344] English edition, p. 250.
[345] Ditto, p. 145.
[346] Ditto, p. 255.
[347] _Op. cit._, p. 167, _et seq._
[348] “American Hero-Myths,” p. 65.
[349] “Les Mœurs des Sauvages,” t. i., 465.
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