The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

[762] See the description of the Urpmilchima rite among the Arunta (Nat. Tr., pp. 503 ff.).

[763] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., pp. 497 and 508.

[764] Nor. Tr., pp. 547, 548.

[765] Ibid., pp. 506, 527 ff.

[766] Meyer, The Encounter Bay Tribe, in Woods, p. 198.

[767] Nor. Tr., pp. 551, 463; Nat. Tr., p. 553.

[768] Nor. Tr., p. 540.

[769] Among the Arunta and Loritja, for example (Strehlow, I, p. 15, n. 2; II, p. 77). During life, the soul is called gumna, and ltana after death. The ltana of Strehlow is identical with the ulthana of Spencer and Gillen (Nat. Tr., pp. 514 ff.). The same is true of the tribes on the Bloomfield River (Roth, Superstition, etc., §66).

[770] Eylmann, p. 188.

[771] Nat. Tr., pp. 524, 491, 496.