[(129)] l. c., p. 45. – Siehe unten die Erörterung über das Opfer.
[(130)] S. [die erste Abhandlung].
[(131)] p. 116.
[(132)] Übereinstimmend mit diesem Text lautet das Fazit des Totemismus, welches Frazer in seiner zweiten Arbeit über den Gegenstand (The origin of Totemism, Fortnightly Review 1899) zieht: »Thus Totemism has commonly been treated as a primitive system both of religion and of society. As a system of religion it embraces the mystic union of the savage with his totem; as a system of society it comprises the relations in which men and women of the same totem stand to each other and to the members of other totemic groups. And corresponding to these two sides of the system are two rough-and-ready tests or canons of Totemism: first, the rule that a man may not kill or eat his totem animal or plant, and second, the rule that he may not marry or cohabit with a woman of the same totem.« (p. 101.) Frazer fügt dann hinzu, was uns mitten in die Diskussionen über den Totemismus hineinführt: Whether the two sides – the religious and the social – have always coexisted or are essentially independent, is a question which has been variously answered.
[(133)] Anläßlich einer solchen Sinnesänderung schrieb er den schönen Satz nieder: »That my conclusions on these difficult questions are final, I am not so foolish as to pretend. I have changed my views repeatedly, and I am resolved to change them again with every change of the evidence, for like a chameleon the candid enquirer should shift his colours with the shifting colours of the ground he treads.« Vorrede zum I. Band von Totemism and Exogamy. 1910.
[(134)] »By the nature of the case, as the origin of totemism lies far beyond our powers of historical examination or of experiment, we must have recourse as regards this matter to conjecture«, A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 27. – »Nowhere do we see absolutely primitive man, and a totemic system in the making.« p. 29.
[(135)] Wahrscheinlich ursprünglich nur nach Tieren.
[(136)] The Worship of Animals and Plants, Fortnightly Review 1869–1870. – Primitive marriage 1865; beide Arbeiten abgedruckt in Studies in ancient History, 1876. 2. ed. 1886.
[(137)] The Secret of the Totem, 1905, p. 34.
[(138)] Nach A. Lang, Secret of the Totem, p. 34.