Note 105 — Volume II. (continued 3)

This condition in which there are no priests and the religious duties are performed by the house father is undoubtedly primeval. It was the case among the Homeric Greeks where Agamemnon himself performs the sacrifice (Iliad, III. 271, and compare Wilson, Preface to Vishnu Purâna, 2, Virgil, Æneid III, 80, Genesis, XIV, 17). ↑