tribe-supply

Updated: July 21, 2026

'The collective desire personified': on what does the collective desire, or collective dread, of the primitive community chiefly concentrate? On two things, the food-supply and the tribe-supply, the desire not to die of famine and not to be harried or conquered by the neighbouring tribe. This earth-mother is the characteristic and central feature of the early Aegean religions.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion