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Updated: October 14, 2026
+842+. Sociogonic myths. Most of the customs and institutions of early peoples go back to a time when there were no records, and their introduction was naturally referred, so soon as reflection thereon began, to gods and heroes of primeval time. +843+. The arts of life are commonly explained in this mythical way.
These Arunta ancestors, notwithstanding their half-bestial forms, are represented as acting in all regards like human beings, and as having planned a complete system of tribal organization, but no religious worship is offered them they figure only in sociogonic myths and in the determination of the totemic status of newborn children.