CHAPTER 5: THE RITUAL LOVE-DEATH


[Back to Note 1] Paul Wirz, Die Marind-anim von Hallandisch Sud-Neu-Guinea (Hamburg: L. Friedrichsen and Company, Vol. I, 1922, Vol. II, 1925).

[Back to Note 2] Ibid. , Vol. II, pp. 40-44.

[Back to Note 3] Hensen, op. cit. , pp. 34-38.

[Back to Note 4] After ibid ., p. 39.

[Back to Note 5] Ibid. , pp. 168-70.

[Back to Note 6] Cf. Adolf E. Jensen, “Die mythische Weltbetrachtung der alten Pflanzer-Völker ,” Eranos-Jahrbuch 1949 (Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1950), pp. 440-47.

[Back to Note 7] Frazer, op. cit. , p. 386.

[Back to Note 8] Homeric Hymns in Cererem 2; also Ovid, Metamorphoses V, 385 ff.

[Back to Note 9] Frazer, op. cit. , p. 470.

[Back to Note 10] Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (3d ed.; London: Cambridge University Press, 1922).

[Back to Note 11] Scholiast to Lucian, Dial. Meretr . II.1, translated by Jane Ellen Harrison in ibid. (1st ed., 1903), p. 122.

[Back to Note 12] Hippolytus, Philosoph . 5,8.

[Back to Note 13] Walter Otto, “Der Sinn der eleusinischen Mysterien ,” Eranos-Jahrbuch 1939 (Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1940), pp. 99-106.

[Back to Note 14] Ephemeris archaiologike, 1883, Archaiologike hetaireis en Athenais (‘Athens: Carl Beck, 1884), p. 81.

[Back to Note 15] Frazer, op. cit. , pp. 479 ff.

[Back to Note 16] Ovid, Metamorphoses , IV.665 ff.

[Back to Note 17] Carl Kerenyi, “Kore,” in C.G. Jung and Carl Kerenyi, Essays on a Science of Mythology (New York: Pantheon Books, The Bollingen Series XXII, 1949), pp. 179-87.

[Back to Note 18] Jensen, Das religiose Weltbild einer fruhen Kultur , pp. 66-77.

[Back to Note 19] Edward Winslow Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (Honolulu: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), p. 181.

[Back to Note 20] J.F. Stimson, The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Honolulu: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934), pp. 28-35. The account is from a chant from the Tuamotus, here abridged from Stimson’s text and rendered in narrative style.

[Back to Note 21] Ibid. , p. 3.

[Back to Note 22] E.g., Captains James Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (London: G. Micol and T. Cadell, 1784), Vol. II, Ch. X.

[Back to Note 23] Gifford, op. cit. , p. 183.

[Back to Note 24] William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London: Henry S. King and Company, 1876), pp. 77-79.

[Back to Note 25] Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Rg-Veda as Land-nama-bok (London: Luzac and Company, 1935).

[Back to Note 26] Thomas Thrum, More Hawaiian Folk Tales (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1923), pp. 235-41.

[Back to Note 27] W.J. Thomson, Te pito te Henua, or Easter Island (Washington, D.C.: Simthsonian Report, 1889), pp. 518-19, as cited by Werner Wolff, Island of Death (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1948). p. 179.

[Back to Note 28] Meillet and Cohen, op. cit. , p. 649.

[Back to Note 29] Ibid. , pp. 663-64, 671.

[Back to Note 30] A.V. Kidder, “Looking Backward,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , LXXXIII, No. 4 (1940), pp. 527-37, cited by Clyde Kluckhohn in Anthropology Today, p. 512n.

[Back to Note 31] Leo Frobenius, Geographische Kultur kunde (Leipzig: Friedrich Brandstetter, 1904), p. 450.

[Back to Note 32] Cf. A.L. Kroeber, Anthropology (1st ed.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923), p. 491.

[Back to Note 33] Cf. ibid ., Fig. 36 (Spinden’s diagrammatic representation of the development of native American culture) and p. 352 (Kroeber’s own guess).

[Back to Note 34] Frederick Johnson, “Radiocarbon Dating,” Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , No.8 (Salt Lake City, 1951), pp. 10-18.

[Back to Note 35] Cf. Carleton S. Coon, op. cit. , p. 149, and Harry L. Shapiro, “Les Iles Marquises: Prehistory of Polynesia ,” Natural History , May 1958, p. 265.

[Back to Note 36] Gordon R. Willey, “Archaeological Theories and Interpretation: New World,” Anthropology Today , p. 375.

[Back to Note 37] Wendell C. Bennett, “New World Culture History: South America,” Anthropology Today , pp. 220-21.

[Back to Note 38] Julian H. Steward, “South American Cultures: An Interpretative Summary,” Handbook of South American Indians (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 143, Vol. V, 1949), p. 749.

[Back to Note 39] Ibid. , p. 769.

[Back to Note 40] Carl O. Sauer, “Cultivated Plants in South and Central America,” Handbook of South American Indians , Vol. VI (1950), p. 506.

[Back to Note 41] Ibid. , pp. 533-38.

[Back to Note 42] Ibid. , pp. 524-25.

[Back to Note 43] Ibid. , p. 497.

[Back to Note 44] Ibid. , p. 527.

[Back to Note 46] Sauer, op. cit. , pp. 499-500, 502-503, 510, 513.

[Back to Note 47] Paul Rivet, “Early Contacts between Polynesia and America,” Diogenes, No. 16 (Winter 1956), p. 82.

[Back to Note 48] Ibid. , pp. 78-87.

[Back to Note 49] Kroeber, op. cit. , pp. 226-27.

[Back to Note 50] Robert Heine-Geldern and Gordon R. Eckholm, “Significant Parallels in the Symbolic Arts of Southern Asia and Middle America,” Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists , Vol.I, The Civilization of Ancient America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951); Robert Heine-Geldern, “The Origin of Ancient Civilizations and Toynbee’s Thesis,” loc. cit .; Charles Wolcott Brooks, “Reports of Japanese Vessels Wrecked in the North Pacific from the Earliest Records to the Present Time,” Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences , Vol. 6 (1875).

[Back to Note 51] See Gordon F. Eckholm, “A Possible Focus of Asiatic Influence in the Late Classical Cultures of Mesoamerica,” Memoirs of the Society of American Archaeology , Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Part a2 (January 1953)., pp. 72-89.

[Back to Note 52] Compare, for example, in Anthropology Today , the articles by Wendell C. Bennett (“New World Culture History: Middle America:), and Gordon R. Willey (“Archaeology Theories and Interpretation: New World”). A helpful chart and discussion will be found in Meguel Covarrubias, The Eagle, the Jaguar, and the Serpent (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), kpp. 73-89. Further guidance will be found in Philip Ainsworth Means, Ancient Civilizations of the Andes (New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931); P. Alden Mason, The Ancient Civilizations of Peru (London: Penguin Books, 1957); Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Ancient Maya (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1946); G.C. Vaillant, The Aztecs of Mexico (Penguin Books, 1950); Meguel Covarrubias, Indian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957); and Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958). For the most recent study and C-14 datings of the Olmec complex, see Philip Drucker, Robert F. Heizer, and Robert J. Squier, Excavations at La Venta Tabasco , 1955 (Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 170, 1959).

[Back to Note 53] Eckholm, loc. cit.

[Back to Note 54] Willey, op. cit. , p. 37.

[Back to Note 55] Mentor L. Williams, ed., Schoolcraft’s Indian Legends (east Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 1956), pp. 58-60.

[Back to Note 56] Theodor Koch-Grunberg, Zwei Jahren unter den Indianern: Reisen in Nordwest-Brasilien 1903-1905 (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuch A.G., 1910), pp. 292-93.

[Back to Note 57] Frazer, op. cit. , pp. 589-91.

[Back to Note 58] E. de Jonghe, “Histoyre du Mechique, Manuscrit francais inedit du XVIe siecle ,” Journal de la Société des Americanistes de Paris , Nouvelle Serie, Tome II, No. 1 (1905), pp. 28-29; cited by Jensen, Das religiose Weltbild einer fruhen Kultur , p. 119.