Note 37 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

This Samoan religious system has been fully described by Sir J. G. Frazer, who believes that it exhibits “what seems to be the passage of pure totemism into a religion of anthropomorphic gods with animal and vegetable attributes, like the deities of ancient Greece” (Totemism and Exogamy, London, 1910, ii, 152).