desacralise

Updated: August 5, 2026

But, as a matter of fact, such food is not taboo to the tribe generally; and the object of the solemn eating cannot be to remove the taboo and desacralise the food for the tribe. If the harvest rites or first-fruit ceremonials are sacrificial in nature, then the presumption is that so, too, are the ceremonies performed at seed time or the analogous period.

F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons - An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion