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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 1223 — Chapter IV · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Here are the very words used by Spencer and Gillen: "They (the ceremonies connected with the totems) are often, though by no means always, associated with the performance of the ceremonies attendant upon initiation of young men, or are connected with the Intichiuma" (Nor. Tr., p. 178).

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