Clans
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Andonites’ loyalties were limited to the inmmediate clan 63:4.3
The clans were blood-tie groups within the tribe, and they owed their existence to certain common interests, such as: 70:3.3 70:4.2-8 70:5.2 70:7.1
The clans served a valuable purpose in local self-government, but they greatly delayed the growth of large and strong nations. 70:4.10
During later times many clans grew out of trades and other industrial associations. 71:1.23
Many primitive clans were virtually exterminated by the practice of both abortion and infanticide. 68:6.9
The old idea of friendship meant adoption into the clan 70:3.6
The clan peace chiefs usually ruled through the mother line; the tribal war chiefs established the father line. 70:4.10
In spite of their belief in spirits, primitive Australians still focus their religion upon the clan. 103:3.1
during feudalism of the European Middle Ages the territorial state collapsed, and there was a reversion to the small castle groups, the reappearance of the clan and tribal stages of development. 71:1.24
primitive man fortified his houses, and the clans solidified by mutual fear and by the inculcation of hate for foreign groups. 50:5.5
The larger territorial states had a long and bitter struggle with the smaller consanguineous clan groups. 71:1.23 134:5.8
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Council of elders 70:5.2 — Gn 50:7; Ex 3:16-18.