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Updated: May 2, 2025
It was old Nino, high priest before Agno, with an ear open to the voice of the shark-god, who had so laid the taboo. But, he, Bashti, had privily commanded Nino to lay the taboo against clam-meat upon him, because he, Bashti, did not like clam-meat and had never liked clam-meat.
It had been her custom to seclude herself from her people except upon occasions, but now she preferred to walk with me daily upon the cliffs, or among the rich foliage, which made a natural garden in the valleys. None molested us, for those to whom the queen showed favour were taboo to the rest of the tribe, so that as long as I retained her goodwill I was safe.
They are what politics must deal with essentially, now that it has found a way. The policeman with his taboo did make moral and social questions insusceptible to treatment in party platforms. He kept the issues of politics narrow and irrelevant, and just because these really interesting questions could not be handled, politics was an over-advertised hubbub.
And in quite the lowest stage of social development it is by means of the action of taboo that summary and automatic punishment for breaches of the custom of the community is inflicted.
Escaping from the cruel tyranny of the captain, he reached the Marquesas Islands, where he had strange adventures as the captive of a tribe of cannibals in the Typee Valley. It is commonly imposed by the king or the high priest of the tribe. Does the "taboo" here seem to you to be a matter of law or religion? Have we any "taboos" in our social system?
He had almost a mind it was only Ula? Why not break the silence enjoined upon gods toward women, and explain this matter to her? Not the great secret itself, of course the secret on which hung the Death and Transmigration of Tu-Kila-Kila oh, no; not that one. The savage was far too cunning in his generation to intrust that final terrible Taboo to the ears of a woman.
Not that from this candid declamation we expected good to flow; it only served as a salve for our tortured dignity. It was the last Sunday of the Siege! But no advance ray of light that was to come illumined our mental horizon. We expected nothing; chimeras had ceased to satisfy, and were not the less sternly because tacitly taboo.
They thought they were being punished for the awful sin they had committed in eating him. The interpreter improved the occasion. He told them their faults pretty roundly. Hadn't he warned them? Didn't they know the pig was taboo? Did any good ever come of breaking a taboo?
He came as near to being spoiled as is possible for a dog. Himself taboo, he quickly learned to lord it over the Somo folk and to have his way and will in all matters. No one dared to dispute with him with stick or stone. Agno hated him he knew that; but also he gleaned the knowledge that Agno feared him and would not dare to hurt him.
Missy tried harder than ever to "perk up" if they found out about the headache, like as not they'd put a taboo on the party grown-ups were so unreasonable. Parties were good for headaches. "I heard over at Mrs. Allen's this afternoon," Aunt Nettie put in, "that there's measles in town. All the Smith children are down with it."
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