The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Emile Durkheim

Author:Emile Durkheim [Durkheim, Emile]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

Yet, howsoever great the prestige enjoyed by these personages may be, there was no occasion for founding special rites in their honour; for they themselves are only rites personified. They have no other reason for existence than to explain existing practices; they are only another aspect of these. The churinga and the ancestor who invented it are only one; sometimes, both have the same name. [923] When someone makes the bull-roarer resound, they say that it is the voice of the ancestor making himself heard. [924] But, for the very reason that each of these heroes is confounded with the cult he is believed to have founded, they believe that he is attentive to the way in which it is celebrated. He is not satisfied unless the worshippers fulfil their duties exactly; he punishes those who are negligent. [925] So he is thought of as the guardian of the rite, as well as its founder, and for this reason, he becomes invested with a veritable moral rôle. [926]

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