menoaeus

Updated: May 5, 2025

This rite may be considered as peculiarly interesting from its great antiquity, for Tegg informs us that it reached as far back as the Theban war, in the account of which mention is made of the burning of Menoaeus and Archemorus, who were contemporary with Jair, eighth judge of Israel.

H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow - An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians