ABSTRACT
I T seems to be a general rule that the building of elab-orate places of worship is not characteristic of primitive people whose religion is in about the same stage of·
It is true that many exceedingly simple savage folk reserve a portion of the large communal living-huts as repositories for their idols, so that these shut-off spaces become, in a sense, sanctuaries. But mere store-rooms for gods are not temples according to the meaning of the word I am using in this chapter, that is to say, artificially constructed places of public worship; and to find these we have to turn to more highly civilised folk, like certain of the Polynesians who built truncated pyramids of stone as platforms on which to conduct their religious rites, or like the natives of Bali, who assembled for worship in a temple consisting of three open courts that were bounded by low walls.
