Note 1201 — Chapter IV · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites
Joseph Ward Swain translation
In this Intichiuma, three assistants represent ancestors "of a considerable antiquity"; they play a real part (Nat. Tr., pp. 181-182). It is true that Spencer and Gillen add that these are ancestors posterior to the Alcheringa. Nevertheless, mythical personages are represented in the course of the rite.