Note 5 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.

Many people, again, claim kindred with the sun and moon. Such are the Natchez of North America and the Incas of Peru.5 There are many children of the sun and moon in Arabia,6 and gypsies of the east of Europe have a legend that they are descended from the sun and moon; the sun having debauched his moon sister, was condemned to wander for ever, in consequence of which their descendants can never rest.7 So in India, the Sûrajbansi and Chandrabansi Râjputs are said to take their names from Sûraj, the sun, and Chandra, the moon, respectively.