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(14) A more primitive form and use of the dance: war dances,

paddle dances, spear dances, dances by widows of warriors.

(15) The work of planting and harvest a ritual performance.

(16) Those types of taboo which are particularly associated with

the ancestral cult.

(17) Rahui, prohibition or restriction by means of badges or signs.

(18) The use of water in purification ceremonies.

(19) The use of the oven in public and private rites.

(20) The belief in Hawaiki, an origin-land to which the spirits of

men returned.

(21) Stratified heavens of myth.

(22) Tattooing.

(23) Cannibalism.

Elements typical of the Stone Builders :

(a) The use of large stone in the construction of tombs and temples.

(See No. I above.)

(b) Embalming. (?) The use of tombs. (See No. 5 above.)

(c) Violent mourning, dissipation after a sacred king's or chief's

death, hired weepers, the singing of eulogies. (See No. 6 above.)

(d) Special rites for deifying great men.

(e) General or ceremonial taboo. (See No. 16 and No. 17 above.) (/) The worship of the great gods of myth in the public cult.

(See No. 4 above.) (g) Divining by breaking objects and observing the scattering of

fragments. (See No. 9 above.) (h) Haruspication. (See No. 10 above.) (i) An organized priesthood, the temple priests or directors of

ceremonial being allied to the chiefs or kings. Inspirational

diviners, necromancers, and magic workers relegated to a

secondary position. (See No. n above.) (j) Craftsmanship: the development of trades in the hands of

master-craftsmen who were priests of the rituals of their

trades. (k) True prayers, supplications, associated with the offering of

sacrifices. Human sacrifice. (See No. n and 12 above.)

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