The book The Religious Practices of the Diegueo Indians was written by author T T Thomas Talbot Waterman Here you can read free online of The Religious Practices of the Diegueo Indians book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Religious Practices of the Diegueo Indians a good or bad book?
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For instance, an old man of Mesa Grande, when as a boy he took the drug, saw Grouse sitting on the ground. Grouse said : kamiyowai-i I am singing enyakarsa eastern bird awik arsa western bird arca-texo grouse komilai I-am-a-man After this experience, the man took this song for his own. The grouse was thereafter "his" bird to the extent that he would never kill one or injure one of the species. The feeling is so vague, however, that the words "totemism" or "fetishism" cannot properly be used in ...connection with it. 56 After all the initiates have "fallen about" helpless from the effects of the drug and been carried outside, the grown people continue to dance the War dance till daybreak. The drug is given soon after dark, and the subjects do not regain full consciousness until late the next morning. The first precaution on their awakening is to give them large draughts of warm water to free their systems of the drug. Otherwise they "swell up" and are in danger of dying. Even grown men have died from the effects of the ceremony.
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