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Hence at all times the man who has postponed his own interests to those under the sanction of the god and the community the man who has respected and upheld the custom of the community has been regarded as the higher type of man, as the better man from the religious as well as from the moral point of view; while the man who has sacrificed the higher interests to the lower, has been punished whether by the automatic action of taboo, or the deliberate sentence of outlawry as one who, by breaking custom, has offended against the god and so brought suffering on the community.
At that time I was ignorant of the fact that by the operation of the 'taboo' the use of canoes in all parts of the island is rigorously prohibited to the entire sex, for whom it is death even to be seen entering one when hauled on shore; consequently, whenever a Marquesan lady voyages by water, she puts in requisition the paddles of her own fair body.
The body became taboo, and at present, when women are commencing to dress so that the legs are shown, the arms are bare, and the back and shoulders visible, the cry of immodesty, immorality and social demoralization is raised, as if real morality rested in these ridiculous, barbaric taboos.
Before Tu-Kila-Kila could get himself under way, sacred umbrella, tom-toms, and all, it was necessary for the King of Fire and the King of Water to make taboo on an elaborate scale with their respective elements; and so by the time the high god had reached M. Jules Peyron's garden, Felix Thurstan had already some time since returned to Muriel's hut and his own quarters.
Similarly in the Mekeo district of British New Guinea there is a double chieftainship. The people are divided into two groups according to families, and each of the groups has its chief. One of the two is the war chief, the other is the taboo chief.
In the midst of the clapping that followed came a loud rap-tap-tap at the door, which immediately opened to admit much to the astonishment of the Fifth two of the prefects, and a consignment of Sixth form girls. "Whatever have we been and gone and done now?" murmured Verity. "Is music taboo?" asked Ingred guiltily, slipping away from the piano.
After service, repose broods over the whole island; the valleys reaching inland look stiller than ever. In short, it is Sunday their "Taboo Day"; the very word formerly expressing the sacredness of their pagan observances now proclaiming the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath. Hence, at the latter place, he was one of the most regular worshippers. Kooloo was a blade.
Actually he came to deliver an ultimatum from Hurst but I mustn't disturb the harmony of this festive gathering with litigious discords." "Now, why mustn't you?" asked Thorndyke. "Why is a subject in which we are all keenly interested to be taboo? You don't mind telling us about it, do you?" "No, of course not.
"The water there is taboo," said Muata, without showing any surprise. "No one would go there but that one who may go. If the boat is gone it will be returned at the appointed time. See, my friend, I give you my seat under the council tree; have you also trust in Muata, the lone hunter." "Do you go alone?"
In this last case it is obvious that a rationalistic explanation of the taboo is impossible. How could the loss of virtue in the poison be a physical consequence of the loss of virtue in the poison-maker's wife?
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