The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) / The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

by James George Frazer

Footnote 571:[ (return) ]

R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 257.

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R. H. Codrington, op. cit. pp. 264, 273 sq., 275-277.

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R. H. Codrington, op. cit. pp. 274 sq.

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R. H. Codrington, op. cit. pp. 266, 276, 277, 286.

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R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 267-270.

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R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 269.

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R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 270 sq.

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R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 275.

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R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 271 sq.

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G. Turner, Samoa a Hundred Years Ago and long before (London, 1884), pp. 335 sq. This account is based on information furnished by Sualo, a Samoan teacher, who lived for a long time on the island. The statement that the fire kindled on the grave was intended "to enable the soul of the departed to rise to the sun" may be doubted; it may be a mere inference of Dr. Turner's Samoan informant. More probably the fire was intended to warm the shivering ghost. I do not remember any other evidence that the souls of the Melanesian dead ascend to the sun; certainly it is much more usual for them to descend into the earth.