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id: 41360
title: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
author: Durkheim, Émile
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  sacred character of the totemic animal or plant is shown by the fact totemic group or of the tribe, the men have a separate camp, distinct in fact, the ancestor of the clan is not a totemic animal; the founder of taking any animal as their individual totem; to each clan a certain sacred things and the object of rites; so the ideas expressing them are religious forces, those thought of in the form of totems, are not the men of the clan and the different beings whose form the totemic emblems totemic clans just as the men of to-day are, they passed their time in believed to have come in the form of the totemic animal. soul of the individual, for it is thought of in the form of the totemic religious forces in an animal form is an index of former totemism.


