name is Crane. He must marry a woman of the Wolf, or Turtle, or Swan, or
other name, and her children keep her family title, not his. Thus, if a
Crane man marries a Swan woman, the children are Swans, and none of them
may marry a Swan; they must marry Turtles, Wolves, or what not, and
_their_ children, again, are Turtles, or Wolves. Thus there is
necessarily an eternal come and go of all the animal names known in a
district. As civilisation advances these rules grow obsolete. People
take their names from the father, as among ourselves. Finally the
dwellers in a given district, having become united into a local tribe,
are apt to drop the various animal titles and to adopt, as the name of
the whole tribe, the name of the chief, or of the predominating family.
Let us imagine a district of some twenty miles in which there are Crane,
Wolf, Turtle, and Swan families. Long residence together, and common
interests, have welded them into a local tribe. The chief is of the Wolf
family, and the tribe, sinking family differences and family names, calls
itself 'the Wolves.' Such tribes were probably, in the beginning, the
inhabitants of the various Egyptian towns which severally worshipped the
wolf, or the sheep, or the crocodile, and abstained religiously (except
on certain sacrificial occasions) from the flesh of the animal that gave
them its name. {107}

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It has taken us long to reach the Sacred Mice of Greek religion, but we
are now in a position to approach their august divinity. We have seen
that the sun-worship superseded, without abolishing, the tribal
pacarissas in Peru, and that the huacas, or images, of the sacred animals
were admitted under the roof of the temple of the Sun. Now it is
recognised that the temples of the Sminthian Apollo contained images of
sacred mice among other animals, and our argument is that here, perhaps,