Motif
Food taboo toward one’s own totem
food_taboo_toward_one_s_own_totem
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
2 traditions
australian aboriginal (1) · melanesian (1)
australian aboriginal
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The Native Tribes of Central Australia IXTICHIUMA CEREMONIES / IXTICHIUMA CEREMONIES 197 / VI INTICHIU.MA CEREMONIES 199 / NATIXE TRIBES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA CHAP.; lines 9905-9949 confidence: high
The passage states that a man eats his totem only sparingly and, for example, an emu man avoids the best parts such as fat.
The passage repeatedly states that people eat their own totems sparingly or avoid especially taboo parts such as eggs and fat.
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melanesian
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The Melanesians of British New Guinea RELIGION. / THE LOUISIADES. / S. N. G. / TOTEMISM.; lines 40512-40638 confidence: high
Mukaua people do not kill or eat their totems, may use some obtained totem materials, and say that killing monitor lizard or cuscus totems brings clan-headman anger and boils; accidental totem fish are handled and eaten by someone of another totem.
Mukaua people do not kill or eat their totems; a man with banana totems may not eat their fruit; Bogaboga men who ate their totem fish were reproved and became ill.
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