[692] Ibid., pp. 29, 32.
[693] Ibid., p. 30.
[694] Ibid., p. 46.
[695] See Mathiez, La Théophilanthropie et la Culte décadaire, p. 36.
[696] See Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 33.
[697] There are even ceremonies, for example, those which take place in connection with the initiation, to which members of foreign tribes are invited. A whole system of messages and messengers is organized for these convocations, without which the great solemnities could not take place (see Howitt, Notes on Australian Message-Sticks and Messengers, in J.A.I., 1889; Nat. Tr., pp. 83, 678-691; Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 159; Nor. Tr., p. 551).
[698] The corrobbori is distinguished from the real religious ceremonies by the fact that it is open to women and uninitiated persons. But if these two sorts of collective manifestations are to be distinguished, they are, none the less, closely related. We shall have occasion elsewhere to come back to this relationship and to explain it.
[699] Except, of course, in the case of the great bush-beating hunts.
[700] "The peaceful monotony of this part of his life," say Spencer and Gillen (Nor. Tr., p. 33).
[701] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 683. He is speaking of the demonstrations which take place when an ambassador sent to a group of foreigners returns to camp with news of a favourable result. Cf. Brough Smyth, I, p. 138; Schulze, loc. cit., p. 222.