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there are stages in the patriarchal evolution where the 

 patriarch has to serve for his wife, or to pay serious 

 respect to her rights or deities. 



Starting with an early stage of the matriarchal 

 period, we find the woman as kone, surrounded by 

 the offspring of her womb, kunni, kin, or kind. The 

 primary and natural result is sexual relationship with 

 those nearest in place and blood. We have at once 

 the basis of that brother-sister marriage which looms 

 through all ancient mythologies. Nor is this endo- 

 gamous relation without advantages. An exogamous 

 or monogamic relation could never lead to such a group 

 as we find in the fratria and the clan. The kindred 

 group - marriage provides a maximum of sexual tie 

 between individual members, and of kindred tie between 

 successive generations. What is within this group is the 

 pleasant and the comfortable ; the kin are the kind, the 

 known, the noble, the free, those outside are the unkind, 

 the unknown, the ignoble, the unfree. Peace (sibbe, 

 friede),joy (freude), trust, faith (trewa), charity (caritas), 

 freedom (freiheit), generosity, the moral and the ethical 

 (sitte), are human feelings and attributes, all of which 

 we can trace back to their origin in the sexual relations 

 of a group of men and women of kin the mdcscaf, the 

 gamahhida, the hive. More than one word shows us 

 the lair turning into the common dwelling-place, and 

 this into a village. The community with its fenced 

 abode is represented by the group of gatilinge, at once 

 kinsfolk and co-spouses. From their intersexual re- 

 lationship arise love, neighbourliness, and friendship, 

 the conception of the genial, the convivial, the fitting, 



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