[131] Man, in Jour. Anthrop. Society, vol. xii., pp. 159, 173.
[132] Authorities above quoted, and Darwin, Descent of Man, p. 95.
[133] For abundant examples of the tabu in various nations see Frazer’s article in the Encyc. Britannica above referred to.
[134] Religion of the Semites, p. 18.
[135] Filling in manuscript, he says, seventy-seven quarto volumes, and far from exhausting the supply! Bushman Folk-lore, p. 6. (London, 1875.)
[136] Man, ubi supra, p. 172.
[137] Morice, Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 1892, p. 125.
[138] This branch of the subject has been fully discussed by Keary, Outlines of Prim. Belief, Preface and chapter i.; and Frazer, The Golden Bough, passim.
[139] See Myths of the New World, chap. iii.; also, an article on symbolism in ancient American art, by Prof. Putnam and Mr. Willoughby in Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Science, vol. xliv., p. 302.
[140] I have presented this subject with greater detail in an article “On the Origin of Sacred Numbers” in the American Anthropologist, April, 1894. The contrast of symbolism of the three and the four is familiar to students. Such a popular text-book as Keil’s Manual of Biblical Archæology states that four was the predominating number in the temples, altars, and rites of the ancient world, it being, “according to an idea common to all antiquity, the symbol of the cosmos”; while the three was “the mark of the Divine Being in His various manifestations” (pp. 127, 128).