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TOTEMISM 591
and so they founded the village of Lnoru. But because
a bush turkey, the people oi Looru to~day do not
eat this bird. '
the most complete account oi totemic beliefs is
from the village of Iumloor, and is probably typical
those held in Seniang and Wilemp. Tlle inhabitants hold
to be descended from a female rat, and hence no
of Iumloor or of its daughter villages may kill or cat a
It seems that this respect for the rat leads men of Iumloor
to resent the killing of rats by others, for it is said that should
a man of a descent-group other than Iumloor unwittingly kill
a rat, the people of Iumloor compel him to eat it. If he refuses
:10 so or evades it, then they seek an opportunity to kill him.
Further, the connection i.n death of a man with his totem is
exempliï¬Åed by the Iumloor beliefs. The spirit (m'mlm‘m'n) of a
man or woman of Iumloor enters a rat at death. The conception
appears to be that all rats form one entity into which the spirit
oi the deceased enters or merges somehow. Thus if the rats
become unusually active and destructive in the villages of other
clans, the people thereof say: " Someone nlilst have died at
Ilimloor, the rats are busy again." Tota expressed it thus:
" The rats are strong because of the nimwinin of the dead man
which has entered them." 1 It is noteworthy in reference to this
account of the totemism of lumloor that the information was all
volunteered to Deacon in reply to his asking for an explanation
of the statement that men of Iumloor were not permitted to kill
or eat the rat.
It will be noted, on examining the table oi clans and totems
on p. 599, that the totems of certain ones do not come strictly
under the deï¬Ånition laid down at the beginning of this chapter
for they are individual objects rather than a species. Thus the
people of Uraau, Mbwilmet, and Ranmap were engendered by
stones, and it is those individual ones, not all stones, which they
regard in the way that other clans regard their totemic species.
The people of Mbwilmbar and Nemep are even more unorthodox
since they trace their descent to two human beings who are
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