Note 206 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.
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These were frequent in quite primitive faiths. Some of the priests of ancient Mexico, for example, wholly extirpated the genitalia.—Davila Padilla, Hist. de la Prov. de Mexico, lib. ii., cap. 88. Comp. Charlevoix, Journal Historique, p. 350.