On Aboriginal ReligionMurinbada tribe; 1. The lineaments of sacrifice striking resemblances between the form of a bullroarer ceremony and the form of sacrificial ceremonies in more developed religion Ceremony of Punj; 2. Sacramentalism rite and myth - relations between Punj, and circumcision, totemism (all types), myth relating to Punj, other myths, relations between myth and rite, sequences of conduct; 3. Symbolism in the higher rites geometric idiom of ceremonies, symbolizing processes and types 4. The design plan of a riteless myth - the rainbow serpent, the problem of myth variation, three fragmentary accounts (Marithiel, Wagaman, Nangiomeri), analysis of myth, structural plans of 3 dramas; Myth of Kunmanggur, myth of Punj, rite of Punj 5. The design plans of mythless rites circumcision, mortuary, myth of Kulpi; 6. Cosmos and society made correlative - positive features of Murinbada religion, the dynamical or integrative aspect of the rites, and the underlying philosophy; A concluding note - explanation of series and viewpoint from which it was written. |
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The Lineaments of Sacrifice | i |
The Ceremony of Punj or Karwadi | 4 |
Structure or Operations? | 16 |
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Aboriginal Religion acts affines anthropology Australian Aboriginal Blowfly boys brother bullroarer camp celebration ceremony circumcision clans complex conception connected cult culture Daly River Damul dance death Djaban Djamindjung drama Dreaming Durkheim elements evidence expressed facts father fire functions human initiation interpretation kadu Kanamgek Karamala Karwadi Kimul kind Kukpi Kunmanggur male means mime moiety Mother Mununuk Murinbata religion Mutjingga mystery mystical myth and rite myth of Kunmanggur mythopoeic thought nandji Nangiomeri naĆgun Northern Territory objects Oceania Old Woman ontology operations paperbark patrilineal pattern perhaps persons phase Port Keats possible puberty Radcliffe-Brown Rainbow Serpent reality region relation religious rite and myth rite of Punj ritual sacred sacrifice secret seems sense sequence signs social structure song spatial spear spirit status suggest symbolism things thought Tjimburki Tjinimin Tjirmumuk totemic tradition transformation tribes W. E. H. STANNER wallaby women word yakumal youths