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+428+. The particular exogamic customs vary considerably among early tribes, the differences following, in general, differences of social organization. Well-organized social life tends to promote individual freedom in marriage as in other things. Marriage with a half-sister was allowed by the old Hebrew law, and Egyptian kings often married their sisters. +429+. Theories of the origin of exogamy.
The cause of Ahura's being troubled at the feast is not certain, but the king evidently supposes that she has been pleading to be allowed to marry her beloved brother, and when taxed with it she only expresses her willingness to give way to his exogamic views.
Uncles and aunts within the clan are called father and mother, and the cousins are called sister and brother. However, this exogamic system could not prevent inbreeding, as there was always the possibility that uncles and nieces might marry, so that a "horizontal" system was superimposed across this "vertical" one, forbidding all marriages between different generations.
Within the clan, indeed, the maxim of blood for blood does not hold; though there may be another kind of punitive law put into force by the totemites against an erring brother, as, for instance, if they slay one of their number for disregarding the exogamic rule and consorting with a woman who is all-one-flesh with him.
More to the point, in one respect, is the conjecture that we have here an attenuated survival of the exogamic rule the girl must marry out of her social group; the old social organization having disappeared, the "stranger" takes the place of the original functionary, and the deity the place of the clan.
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