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SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89There are many taboos mentioned inthe Old Testament, the most famousbeing that laid upon the tree of knowledge(S&K IV 581).The records of the Hebrews are full of themention of things clean and unclean, holyand unholy,but their beliefs along these lines were farless cumbersome and extensive than werethose of many other peoples.89:1.4 The seven commandments ofDalamatia and Eden, as well as“The ten commandments, as apprehendedby the white man in their ethical splendor,are not so apprehended by the black manwhen God ‘ties him with ten tyings’ inthe ‘early morning’ of his Christian day.They are not then to him the expressionsof ideals; they are facts, definite laws ofabstainings, of omission and commission.the ten injunctions of the Hebrews, weredefinite taboos,all expressed in the same negative form aswere the most ancient prohibitions.They are the Eldorado of taboo. Theyreplace with a great calm the agitations ofthe experimental efforts of the past, wheneverything was at stake and nothing wassure; when man was exhausted in hiseffort to fill his side of the contract, butmight never count upon the party of thesecond part. In this they areemancipating; they are the way of escapefrom a man-made yoke...” (S&K 1100).But these newer codes were trulyemancipating in that they took the placeof thousands of pre-existent taboos.And more than this, these latercommandments definitely promisedsomething in return for obedience.6
SOURCE OR PARALLEL URANTIA PAPER 89§271.* Food-Taboo. (Sumner & Keller 1114)In general, African food-taboos restupon irrational daimonistic notions andthere is more than an indication that theyare imposed chiefly upon the flesh offetish-animals. Since almost every tribehas its special tribal animal, there isprobably a considerable admixture oftotemism in the restrictive measures(S&K 1116).The Phœnicians were forbidden to eat theflesh of both swine and cows (S&K IV593).89:1.5 The early food taboos originatedin fetishism and totemism.The swine was sacred to the Phoenicians,the cow to the Hindus.[The flesh of certain holy or of certain particularlyunholy animals was considered taboo, andtherefore might not be eaten. (That primitivesuperstition is responsible for the aversion to porkwhich marked the ancient Egyptians, and stillmarks the Jews and Moslems.) (Browne 40)]“ ... In the island of Aurora, in the NewHebrides, mothers sometimes have afancy, before the birth of a child, that theinfant is connected in its origin with acocoanut or breadfruit, or some suchobject, a connection which the nativesexpress by saying that the children are akind of echo of such things.The child, therefore, is taught not to eatthat in which it has had its origin, and istold, what the mothers entirely believe,that to eat it will bring disease” (S&K IV584).It is not alone the food upon whichrestriction descends; the manner of eatingalso comes in for attention (S&K 1119).The Egyptian taboo on pork has beenperpetuated by the Hebraic and Islamicfaiths.A variant of the food taboo was the beliefthat a pregnant woman could think somuch about a certain food that the child,when born, would be the echo of thatfood.Such viands would be taboo to the child.89:1.6 Methods of eating soon becametaboo,7
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