_ THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 217 
clay images which have been‘ set up on his birthday 
tival are afterwards thrown into water, as it were his 
native element. 
of it. The king also, and some of the highest officers of 
state, carry this “crook.” In India, we find Yama, the 
regent ofthe south, has a name from a sacred staff or 
,» and some religious impostors wear as badges of 
sanctity a “staff” and a rs skin, Magi of 
Persia carried the Bareema or barsom, a divining wand, 
use it against the powers of evil. (2.) A new name. 
Having now acquired a knowledge of sacred things, the 
initiated is a new man, he is “ twice born,” and like his 
kinsman in Upper Guinea, already described, he will 
come forth to the world under a new character, re- 
ceives only one of these at a 
them increases according 
