[1148] On this point, see Hubert and Mauss, Mélanges d'histoire des religions, preface, p. v ff.
[1149] The Religion of the Semites, pp. 390 ff.
[1150] Smith cites some cases himself in The Rel. of the Semites, p. 231.
[1151] For example, see Exodus xxix. 10-14; Leviticus ix. 8-11; it is their own blood which the priests of Baal pour over the altar (1 Kings xviii. 28).
[1152] Strehlow, III, p. 12, verse 7.
[1153] At least when it is complete: in certain cases, it may be reduced to one of its elements.
[1154] Strehlow says that the natives "regard these ceremonies as a sort of divine service, just as a Christian regards the exercises of his religion" (III, p. 9).
[1155] It should be asked, for example, whether the effusions of blood and the offerings of hair which Smith regards as acts of communion are not real oblations (see Smith, op. cit., pp. 320 ff.).
[1156] The expiatory rites, of which we shall speak more fully in the fifth chapter of this same book, are almost exclusively oblations. They are communions only secondarily.
[1157] This is why we frequently speak of the ceremonies as if they were addressed to living personalities (see, for example, texts by Krichauff and Kemp, in Eylmann, p. 202).