Note 1398 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS
Reading edition
W. E. Marshall, Travels amongst the Todas (London, 1873), pp. 136, 137; cp. pp. 141, 142; F. Metz, Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills, Second Edition (Mangalore, 1864), pp. 19 sqq. However, at the present day, according to Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, the palol or milkman of the highest class is rather a sacred priest than a god. But there is a tradition that the gods held the office of milkman, and even now the human milkman of one particular dairy is believed to be the direct successor of a god. See W. H. R. Rivers, The Todas (London, 1906), pp. 448 sq.