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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 1207 — Chapter IV · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites

Joseph Ward Swain translation

One of the most solemn of these ceremonies is the one which we have had occasion to describe above (p. 217), in the course of which an image of the Wollunqua is designed on a sort of hillock which is then torn to pieces in the midst of a general effervescence.

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