ABSTRACT
In "Signs and Symbols" the author has shown that the New Guinea natives have the same customs as the Nilotic Negroes. In New Guinea there are men said to have the power of divination, information being usually conveyed to the people by a Spirit speaking through the mouth of the Seer, who, meanwhile, is unconscious. Gerald Massey states in "Ancient Egypt" that in the earlier exodus of the Nilotic Negroes, the earliest totemic people, there were no Gods or Goddesses. The powers of the elements were not even divinized. The elemental powers were the origins of the Gods—givers of food and drink—and must not be confounded with the propitiation and worship of the Ancestral Spirits, which were spirits of human origin and have been frequently confounded with them. When the native powers are represented as human they assume a misleading phase, the primitive thought is charged with puerilities of the most recent fashion.
