on.
Therefore (in the hundred cases) the names of the _tribes_ derive from
names of animals. Indeed, the names of totem-kins _are_ the names of
animals--wolves, bears, cranes. Mr. Max Muller remarks that the name
'Arcades' _may_ come from [Greek], a bear (i. 738); so the Arcadians
(Proselenoi, the oldest of races, 'men before the moon') may be--Bears.
So, of course (in this case), they would necessarily be Bears _before_
they invented Areas, an eponymous hero whose name is derived from the pre-
existing tribal name. His name, then, could not, before they invented
it, remind them of a bear. It was from their name [Greek] (Bears) that
they developed _his_ name Areas, as in all such cases of eponymous
heroes. I slightly incline to hold that this is exactly what occurred. A
bear-kin claimed descent from a bear, and later, developing an eponymous
hero, Areas, regarded him as son of a bear. Philologically 'it is
possible;' I say no more.



The Bear Dance


'The dances of the maidens called [Greek], would receive an easy
interpretation. They were Arkades, and why not [Greek] (bears)?' And if
[Greek], why not clad in bear-skins, and all the rest? (ii. 738). This
is our author's explanation; it is also my own conjecture. The Arcadians
were bears, knew it, and possibly danced a bear dance, as Mandans or
Nootkas dance a buffalo dance or a wolf dance. But all such dances are
not totemistic. They have often other aims. One only names such dances
totemistic when performed by people who call themselves by the name of
the animal represented, and claim descent from him. Our author says
genially, 'if anybody prefers to say that the arctos was something like a
totem of the Arcadians . . . why not?' But, if the arctos was a totem,
that fact explains the Callisto story and Attic bear dance, while the
philological theory--Mr. Max Muller's theory--does not explain it. What
is oddest of all, Mr. Max Muller, as we have seen, says that the bear-
dancing girls were 'Arkades.' Now we hea

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