[334] Cf. Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 224. For the Old Testament Song of Songs see Budde's commentary on that book.
[335] Sacrifices to local or other deities formed a part of marriage ceremonies in Greece and Rome; Hera and Juno were guardians of the sanctity of marriage. No religious ceremony in connection with marriage is mentioned in the Old Testament; a trace of such a ceremony occurs in the book of Tobit (vii, 13).
[336] The Mystic Rose, p. 322, etc.
[337] Hughes, Dictionary of Islam, article "Marriage."
[338] The danger might continue into early childhood and have to be guarded against; for a Greek instance see Gardner and Jevons, Greek Antiquities, p. 299.
[339] For details see Ploss, Das Kind, and works on antiquities, Hebrew, Greek, and Roman.
[340] Cf. Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, i, 72 ff.; iv, 244 ff.
[341] Dixon, The Northern Maidu, p. 228 ff.; and The Shasta, p. 453 ff.; Rivers, The Todas, p. 313 ff.; Hollis, The Nandi, p. 64 f.; D. Kidd, Savage Childhood, p. 7; Lev. xii; article "Birth" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[342] See above, § 55 f.
[343] Tylor (Primitive Culture, ii, 3 ff.) suggests that such an idea may have been supposed to account for the general resemblance between parents and children.