Motif
group taboo protecting life-linked animal species
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A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Taboo and Ritual Restriction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 7388-7470 confidence: high
Frazer compares Australian beliefs with Central American nagual beliefs: each sex has lives bound to an animal species, but not to known individual animals, so all animals of that species are spared and protected.
Australian men and women protect all animals of the species believed to contain or affect the lives of their sex because any individual animal's death might harm one of them.
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